Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I, too, bought the Schuss book the other day--on BD Colen's recommendation. Excellent general text, with *lots* of useful information/guidance regarding B&W printing in PhotoShop. Well worth the cost. I'm perfectly happy with the B&W results I get with the Photo Stylus 700. My sense is that the weak link is not so much the available inkjet technology as it is the available media: inks and papers. I'm especially interested in the new materials offered by Luminous (sic) and others. When I upgrade the printer (to handle larger format), I will dedicate the 700 to B&W and experiment with the various continuous tone B&W inks. Until then, I'm reluctant to commit to B&W printing only--which, unless someone knows the storage life of unsealed cartridges, seems necessary with the new media. A poster in the Contax group, who seems quite knowledgeable about digital printing, insists that the PhotoShop printer drivers generate "smeared" colors and introduce artifacts into the printed image. He recommends editing in PS and printing under PageMaker. I don't have access to PageMaker, but has anyone else done any comparisons between PS's and PM's output to the printer? I'd really like to know whether it's possible to tweak the output by-passing PS's driver. CHandos >Does any one out there use a digital printer for making quality B&W prints >that you would be happy to frame and exhibit? Its hard to bring your laptop >to show friends your latest images. B.D. Colen recommended "The Digital >Darkroom" by George Schuss. I just got it yesterday from Amazon.com and >it's a wonderful book. Great recommendation. > >Richard > Chandos Michael Brown Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies College of William and Mary http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown