Digital BW, The Print

On 12/06/2012 02:41 AM, Paul wrote:

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> The next major hurtle is whether the easy profiling software that the color printer uses will be able to handle a dye in a driver (Epson 4000) that was never made with this in mind.
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> It should be a fun project.
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> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com

The 4000 was of the 9600-7600 period, the last two existed in a dye 
version too. I think Epson had more difficulty to get the pigment 
profiles correct at that time so Atkinson got involved. But Atkinson 
made profiles for the dye type too. Given similar head technology I do 
not see why profiling Claria on the 4000 would be a problem. The goal 
would be Atkinson profile quality for the Claria :-) You got a grey ink 
less though.

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?oid=14397&infoType=Downloads&platform=OSF_W_XP-64

BTW, there could still be Metal Silver inkjet film around (PET 
metalised) that is dye only compatible. It was never made for pigment 
ink for the reasons you observed too.


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