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2006-11-19 by trrekrider
I am having an issue with the ABW option. I have a R2400 but I am not able to access the ABW settings when I have slected any paper type besides Premium Luster, Semi-gloss or Gloss. The option is "grayed" out and unavailable when any matte, VFA or ultra smooth paper type is slected. I have made sure that either "best photo" or "RPM" is also slected. Any ideas or comments would be appreciated. trekrider
2006-11-19 by Eric Neilsen
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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of trrekrider Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 12:22 AM To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Digital BW] ABW settings I am having an issue with the ABW option. I have a R2400 but I am not able to access the ABW settings when I have slected any paper type besides Premium Luster, Semi-gloss or Gloss. The option is "grayed" out and unavailable when any matte, VFA or ultra smooth paper type is slected. I have made sure that either "best photo" or "RPM" is also slected. Any ideas or comments would be appreciated. trekrider [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
2017-06-14 by goch@...
1) Has anyone worked out the zero point, if there is one, for colour tones with Epson ABW? That is, what "advanced" settings (if any) with ABW would achieve the exalted state of black-only printing?
"Warm" uses settings of 20 vertical (toward yellow) and 4 horizontal (toward the R/M side).
Dead centre (0,0) is supposed to be relatively neutral visually, but that requires both Y & M, I think, to neutralize the natural warmth of the carbon blacks.
2) A second, related question: Is there an easy (or any!) way to determine the colour contributions in ABW "advanced" settings? A time-consuming, qualitative method would be to make prints of a grey scale and examine them under a microscope to see whether Y and/or M dots are present. (I don't have a microscope. . . what magnification would be best for the project, assuming you print at 1440? I suspect that the driver does not make toning dependent on print resolution, so a lower resolution might make this easier.)
Ideally, someone would have created a program that accepts the output of the print driver and decodes it into ink jet instructions, at least to the extent that we could determine whether the colour jets were being used.
Myron
2017-06-14 by Mark Savoia
This is what I am using to get a pretty good black and white. Epson UC inks, P9000 printer Mark stillrivereditions.com
> On Jun 14, 2017, at 1:39 PM, goch@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > > 1) Has anyone worked out the zero point, if there is one, for colour tones with Epson ABW? That is, what "advanced" settings (if any) with ABW would achieve the exalted state of black-only printing? > > > > "Warm" uses settings of 20 vertical (toward yellow) and 4 horizontal (toward the R/M side). > > > > Dead centre (0,0) is supposed to be relatively neutral visually, but that requires both Y & M, I think, to neutralize the natural warmth of the carbon blacks. > > > > 2) A second, related question: Is there an easy (or any!) way to determine the colour contributions in ABW "advanced" settings? A time-consuming, qualitative method would be to make prints of a grey scale and examine them under a microscope to see whether Y and/or M dots are present. (I don't have a microscope. . . what magnification would be best for the project, assuming you print at 1440? I suspect that the driver does not make toning dependent on print resolution, so a lower resolution might make this easier.) > > > > Ideally, someone would have created a program that accepts the output of the print driver and decodes it into ink jet instructions, at least to the extent that we could determine whether the colour jets were being used. > > > > Myron > > > > > > > > >
2017-06-14 by lgebhardt@...
2017-06-14 by Paul Roark
...I would hope ABW isn't adding yellow unless you try for a warmer tone than the black inks. If it is I would definitely switch over to QTR since the yellow inks are the least stable.