[Leica] Paper profile question

[Christopher Crawford]

The Epson ABW mode has presets for warm, neutral, cool, and sepia. You can then tweak them to get the color you like.

The good profiling kits cost thousands, and even they don't give perfect results with B&W. They're for color printing, and do well for that.
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On 8/23/18, 12:13 PM, "LUG on behalf of Ken Carney" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

    Thanks.  I thought $398 for a profiling kit might be too good to be 
    true, but you never know.  Epson ABW is good, but I like to print with a 
    slight warm tone (Photoshop gradient fill layer with "selenium #1 dialed 
    way back), so it looks like a good paper profile for me.  I also bought 
    ImagePrint for my first good printer, an Epson 2200, but as you note it 
    cost about as much as the printer these days.
    
    Ken
    
    
    On 8/21/2018 7:38 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
    > Ken,
    >
    > Inexpensive profiling kits like that one don't really produce very good profiles, and even the high end profiling devices don't do well for BW printing. To be honest, the Epson Advanced BW Mode produces FAR more accurate B&W prints than you'll get from using any color profile, and it is built-in and free.
    >
    > I made a tutorial on how to use it:
    >
    > https://youtu.be/kxkpJEzn8YM
    >
    >
    
    
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