Digital BW, The Print

Keith, that was a pretty fair review, but the one thing that I didn't 
see (and may have over looked) was the amount of time it took to 
measure the 729 patch target.

Also, for other people reading this review... Take care to read some 
of the notes that Keith pointed out, some printer/paper/ink/driver 
setting combinations just do not work! It is often the printers that 
sell for next to nothing that this most aptly applies. Any printer 
can have a profile made, but not all profiles made for those printers 
will look good! Recently I spent considerable time with a customer 
trying to get one of those cheaper printers to behave, in the end 
there was no sale for a profile because the printer just would not 
print without crushing the blacks. Hopefully that person will come 
back when he replaces the printer with something that will behave 
better.

It should be noted that most any Epson printer will behave in the 
Color Controls driver setting, and you should get a good profile from 
that setting. But the gamut in CC is MUCH smaller than the ICM/No 
Color Adjustment setting (Keith mentions this in the review). And 
some of the cheaper printers just go completely mad when you use the 
ICM/NCA setting, even with the proper Epson papers, and inks for that 
printer.

If the Lab values from the DataColor 1005 are easy to retrieve, then 
it might work very well to use with QTR! It might even work well with 
Profile Prism, but you will need to do some work to get the Lab 
values into an image that PP can read (hint to Mike Cheney)...