Re: bestcolor bestlin tool
Re: bestcolor bestlin tool
- Subject: Re: bestcolor bestlin tool
- From: Troy Buccini <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:16:22 -0600
An L* of 22 Using Epson PK on 280gsm smooth fine art is about right.
Matte K will yield you around an L* of 15-17 (mileage may vary.)
Visually this is Huge though! This is why the 4000 is nice - you can
have Pk and Mk at the same time.
Troy
On Nov 6, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Roger Breton wrote:
Simon,
Thanks for your responses, sorry to be a couple of days replying.
I don't have the original 400% chart for the paper in question. I
found
the point at which it appeared to first pool, selected that
percentage
and printed again at about 200% (then tossed the original 400%
strip -
oops). The RIP then picked a TIL of 166% from the patches measured.
See, me, I disregard the RIP's suggesed TIL in this case. I feel
the whole
liinearization battle with the RIP is fought in that one screen. I
tried
pushing it once all the way to 350%, on some paper, but every
incremental %
of inks only resulted in marginal decrease in L*. I also tried
boosting the
% of light inks in solid, up to 50%, but that doesn't much to lower
L* of
400% ink. I also tried selecting a Reference ICC profile like
TR-001 but all
that seems to do is to display an ab diagram of the linearized printer
primaries against the Reference primary.
At the end of the 5th step the the darkest patch measures L* of 22
Imagine, an L* of 22! This is so weak, it's like diluted chicken
soup --
yeark. (I have nothing against chicken)
This is on a 280gsm fine art smooth matt stock and using the
PhotoBlack
on the 9600 (as the client prints on many media types and doesn't
want
to change Black ink for different substrates).
I'm using Photo black too, here.
I am just curious if this is about as black as I can get using this
setup.
Simon
That can't be, Simon! I know we go down, after much pain and time/
material
wasted, to an L* of 13 on Fuji Fpsatin semi-matte stock but that's
still NOT
dark enough. At some point, I want to risk buying a test roll of
24" EFI
9180 semi-matt stock and see what results I get with that.
But L* of 22 is never dark enough.
I keep my fingers crossed that the BEST/EFI tandem have some tricks
up their
sleeves for an impending update...
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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