Re: Hope for Epson drivers...
Re: Hope for Epson drivers...
- Subject: Re: Hope for Epson drivers...
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:41:45 -0800
At 11:14 AM -0700 1/14/03, Dan Reid wrote:
Proofs in the pudding as they say. If you are happy with the output then by
all means continue. You're proofing requirements may not be as stringent as
another photographer in what you want to proof to show. That's fine. If they
serve the purpose well with a RGB printer workflow, then cool.
To hell with the science -- it's the prints that count!
I have to echo John's experience. We proofed all the loose color for
the last two editions of Real World Photoshop on an Epson 1280 using
custom RGB profiles for the Epson and custom CMYK profiles for the
press. They turned out to be a substantially more accurate predictor
of the press behavior than the printer's in-house Approval system.
(This isn't a claim that an RGB inkjet is more accurate than an
Approval, just that we did more work setting up our proofing chain
than the printer did.)
But any ICC conversion gets pushed through three channels, not four.
I'd like an Epson NCA LUT with better gray balance and, especially,
better linearity, but the Epson black isn't the same color as any
process black I've ever seen and doesn't trap like any process ink
I've ever seen, and the Epson isn't a CMYK printer, it's a CcMmYk
printer. I'm really not convinced that treating it as a CMYK device
buys anything I can't get treating it as an RGB one...
Also, the only neutral BW I've been able to get from the Epsons has
been using the Colorbyte ImagePrint RIP, which treats the printer as
an RGB device. As always, your milage may vary.
Bruce
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