Digital BW, The Print

CD,

Is PrintFIX PRO 2.0 available yet?  I don't see it on the Colorvision site.

Thanks,

Tom

On 11/13/06, CDTobie@... <CDTobie@...> wrote:
>
>
> I actually have this "carbon yellow" in a 2400 (along with MIS's two
> grays,
> instead of Epson's as well, ler Paul's suggesting). I installed it to test
> how
> it profiles with PrintFIX PRO 2.0, and the answer is that it offers slight
> improvements in B&W printing, and should reduce metamerism a bit in the
> process,
> since it will remove any yellow thats in the neutral prints, or in
> nonneutral
> prints for that matter. This combo won't necessarily print tints that lean
> towards yellow, but for the 'cool to neutral to carbon' range its quite
> lovely.
> And its pleasing to me that it works with PFP2 profiles, since most
> specialty
> black and white solutions do not (that is, other than being able to use
> our
> spectro and measuring software for generating linearization or curve
> data.)
>
> The other interesting thing about this combination, is that you can swap
> the
> yellow cart back to Epson Yellow (or MIS K4 Yellow, I assume) and get full
> color printing as well. You just have to profile each of the two "states"
> of the
> device for each paper you will be using, and swap carts as necessary. This
> would not be as fast in larger cart systems where there are lines to be
> purged,
> but its slick in the 2400.
>
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Unit
> Datacolor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
>


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