Digital BW, The Print

It is definitely a new driver.

My prints are not at all bad considering they are just using the 
epson driver with no corrections. They don't seem to shift much at 
all by light source, but they tend to be much colder than I 
like...colder certainly than what I consider to be dead neutral.

I have ordered the Image Print raster only software and will just 
wait for that rather than try to recreate the wheel myself.

what a great printer, though...16x20s as quick as 8x10s used to be<g>.

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "chipcarterdc" 
<chipcarterdc@h...> wrote:
> 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).