Digital BW, The Print

Op 13-9-2010 21:21, p5198 schreef:
> ... that works perfectly to profile my like-new Epson 1280 at the
> camp in Canada, along with my NEC CRT (Nova Scotia: Frozen in Time!)
> At home in New York, however, I use an Epson 1800 with the Roark
> black-ink setup to print both BW and colour. The original software
> from Gretag-Macbeth warns me to download software for printers using
> colours other than diluted C&M, and the 1800 includes Blue and Red.
> X-Rite bought Gretag several years ago and have pretty much buried
> the Gretag software (though the principle measuring device seems
> unchanged). Can anyone using the X-rite product and running a
> multi-color printer tell me what the X-Rite name for the appropriate
> software is? Or maybe give me the name of somebody at X-Rite who
> knows what I'm talking about?
>
> Grassgrown

The Epson R1800 is considered an RGB-device with the normal driver and
the color management systems active. Any printer profile creation 
package that
supports an Eye-One Basic etc will create RGB-device printer profiles. 
The extra Red and Blue inks do not create another condition in that case.

It will be different with a special driver (RIP) that considers the 
R1800 an CcMmYKRB-device. Then you have to create N-Color printer 
profiles for the active color management system. There might be a RIP 
for the R1800 but I'm not aware of one that drives it in N-color mode.

For B&W drivers like QTR you do not need more software than already 
available in QTR.


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