Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Imageprint profiles are worth the money by themselves. They are far superior to any canned profile available, especially in printing shadow detail. ABW also wastes a lot of paper and ink both in getting the actual tonality right, and even more so if you want to colour tone the image, because the only way to do it is by trial and error - there is no way to see even a reasonable approximation of the effect on the monitor, let alone an accurate image. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote: > I'm also starting to work with Epson's ABW. After only a few attempts I'm > convinced that ImagePrint won't be getting any more of my money. It's not > quite a totally transparent work-flow but it's very good. Much progress has > been made on this driver front. > > Adam > > On Jun 24, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Ken Carney wrote: > > > Howard, > > > > Thanks for looking. ABW (Advanced Black & White System) is Epson's > approach to b&w printing with a color printer. It accomplishes this by > using mostly the black inks and a little of the color ink. I think it works > really well with a little experimenting. The prints don't show any signs > of color shift, and you can print on semi-gloss papers with the Epson > factory ink. Prior to that, I used the ImagePrint software with success for > b&w. A consideration there is that I paid $900 for my Epson 3880, and the > ImagePrint software is also $900...The Quadtone RIP also works well for b&w > (www.quadtonerip.com) and only costs $50. > > > > Ken > > (Most all of the b&w prints I brought on the cruise were with the 3880 > and ABW.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >