Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I'm looking at one of the best b&w prints I've ever produced digitally - a 12"x12" image of convoluted roots on the Lake Champlain shore. (Sorry, Ted. Despite all the time I've spent in your seminars, I still occasionally photograph rocks and ferns). It came out of the Epson 2200 with the standard OEM inks. The blacks are black even under incandescent light and remain so in daylight. With more time than common sense on my hands, I downloaded and installed the free QuadtoneRIP software from Roy Harrington's site (http://harrington.com) which established another print driver for the 2200. There were, I admit, more than a few utterances of very bad words until I read and followed all the instructions for the installation. But the effort was worth it, and I now know what settings in the Photoshop print dialog work and what does not. At the risk of starting an interminable "my operating system is better than your operating system" thread, I should note that the software works only on Mac and Linux platforms. For me, that is is not a problem because I do not allow Microsoft in my house. Roy On Dec 26, 2003, at 8:32 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > lea wrote: >> >> Ideally I'd like to get a great neutral black print on the Ilford >> pearl >> paper. If I have to switch to matt to get that, I'd be willing to make >> the switch. > > http://studio-nelson.com/inkjet/bw22001.htm > make sure you check out the last of it's 4 pages. > Seems just black printing on the Epson is a real bad idea. > I've got another friend who does this and i sent this to him. > And Ted Grant wrote: > > Our 2200 : > > Out of the box, plugged in, printed!!!! > > That's it, no fiddling, no diddling, no settings, no re-settings and > wham > Bam thank you ma'am beautiful prints, both colour & B&W just the way > we use > our M7 Leica's! :-) And the worst part? We never read much past, well > we > sort of looked at the first few pages and away we went. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html