Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Roy, I'm all for simplicity and lack of clutter. :-) Just my opinion, but I think sometimes "technical" gets in the way of what's practical. The more I study up on color management, the more confused I get. Right out of the box my Canon i9900 worked great with glossy papers. But I wanted to print on Epson premium lustre. Somebody said they were having good luck with one of the Red River profiles. I tried it and after some minor tweaking in the Canon driver I got wonderful results. Not satisfied from a technical perspective (can't use a Red River profile on Epson paper), I tried to build my own profiles. After hundreds of dollars spent on ink, books, and software -- and countless hours of study -- my printing didn't improve. I went back to what I started with and I've been happy ever since. Granted I learned some interesting things. I think the biggest thing I learned was that color management is 90 percent art and 10 percent science. Which is the same thing I learned 25 years ago when I interned with an offset printing company. Some things never change. Dave Roy Zartarian wrote: > Dave > > I wish I would articulate some technical or aesthetic reason for the > combination. The fact of the matter is that I received an order of a > complete set of bulk Ultratone inks for the 1280 just before the > printer died. After some checking with the folks on the Yahoo Digital > B&W list, I then obtained some empty chipped MIS cartridges, filled > them with the appropriate inks, and loaded them into the printer. > Basically, I was a little too "thrifty" to let those inks go to waste. > > What I like about this set-up is that life is less cluttered with only > one printer. > > Roy