I'd like to ask that anyone who has a 4000 print a B&W image with a "normal" range of tonal values and check for neutrality and metamerism. I ask this b/c I have a 4000 and have printed one B&W image that to me looks neutral and (more surprisingly) seems to show little to no color shifting when viewed in different light. The print was a grayscale RGB file (converted using the Convert to B&W Pro plug-in) on Epson Enhanced Matte, printed at 1440dpi, using "printer color management" in the Photoshop driver and "color controls" in the Epson driver. However, the image I printed was not really representative of a normal B&W, in my opinion -- it's a backlit image of a tree against the sky, so it had lots of stark blacks and white whites, with just a bit of midtone values and gradation in the sky. So, I'll be printing another image as a better test (like something with a wide range of tonal values -- a landscape of street shot). I'd like others to post their experiences w. B&W on the 4000 as well -- I find it hard to believe that B&W has been significantly improved unless there were serious tweaks to the driver that I don't know about, and am assuming, as I mentioned above, that the nature of this particular image is why there was little metamerism. (Or perhaps Enhanced Matte shows less color shifting for some reason? I'll try the next print on a different paper).
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Epson 4000 B&W: neutrality and metamerism
2004-04-12 by chipcarterdc
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