Steve Bell wrote: > You'll never get good B&W > out of the Epson dye inks without a dedicated inkset.
I beg to differ: The term "good B&W" is very subjective. I've created somewhere around 100 profiles for 1270 and 1290 printers on various stock and the black and white on those in general was pretty darn neutral as metamerism isn't that big a problem on those printers. On pigmented inks, however, illuminant metamerism is a real problem and as such many people can't live with the apparent shift in colour under various illuminants. Many people find the neutrals fully adequate though, so even here it's dangerous to generalise. In both instances you can (when you know what you are doing) obtain true B&W with less metameric shift that both a print on Fuji Crystal Archive and offset, provided you use a RIP (CMYK printer driver). I'll put some hard evidence (visual and numeric) up on my website in a week or so - work just keeps getting in the way. Best Regards, Thomas Holm / Pixl Aps - Photographer, Educator, Colour Management Consultant & Seminar speaker - Remote Profiling Service (Output ICC profiles) - www.pixl.dk � Email: th[AT]pixl.dk -- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
