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Re: is "grayscale profiling" possible?
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Re: is "grayscale profiling" possible?


  • Subject: Re: is "grayscale profiling" possible?
  • From: Armand Rosenberg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:56:35 -0400

At 8:40 AM -0400 6/27/03, Nick Wheeler wrote:
You say desktop printer so could be other than an Epson. I have read that
the new Canon printers a startlingly good right out of the box.

Yeah, I hear there may be manufacturers other than Epson finally making high-quality desktop inkjets <grin>. Seriously, the bottom line is that the tonal issues I mentioned happen to SOME extent with ALL brands of printers I've tried, though <sigh> Epson is one of the worst in this regard, in my experience. As I said before, if I stare long enough at *any* B&W print made by *any* color printer, I start to see the density-dependent tonal shifts which haunt my color world.

I realize fully that this may be a wild goose chase. As many know, the tonal shifts I complain about can result from metamerism issues, which are difficult (or impossible) to eliminate with profiling. So even if I could make the gray balance just right in one viewing condition, there might still be problems in the REAL world where the viewing conditions are more variable than in my digital darkroom. (My definition of "viewing conditions" includes both the spectral output of the light source and the various angles involved.)

BTW: is Epson's Gray Balancer (for Ultrachrome printers only??) actually available to US customers? Last I heard, the answer was NO.

Armand
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