Re: Black & White & Magenta all over...
2003-11-02 by grdglass@aol.com
Barrett, No, you're not alone. The B+W print you are talking about was done by Rodney King. I got one to take home. It turns green in daylight. The 4000 will need a RIP. Helene > As people were being shooed out of PhotoPlus Expo yesterday > evening, I wandered into Epson's exhibition booth, where a > number of prominent photographers' work - printed on the new > Epson 4000 - were on display. Only one photographer of the > bunch had any b/w work - three prints, in fact, which ranged from > very nice to mediocre to awful (IMO). > > One, a portrait, was actually quite lovely and, unlike the other two, > pretty much artifact-free; another, a landscape, had a rather milky > contrast range, but, much worse, on only slightly closer > inspection I could see obvious posterization in the clouds. And > no, I doubt this was a sought-after "effect". The third print, of a > man in mid-leap between two hay bales, was actually quite > nice...until I noticed a magenta shift along the horizon line. > Another photographer who was looking on was actually a bit > startled when I pointed this out. > > So...maybe this answers the question about there still being a > need for a RIP with the 4000...at least for anal-retentives like me. > But I'm not alone here, right? > > I said, *right*? ;-) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]