Do I Convert to Adobe 1998 For the Epson ABW Driver?

[ianbarber]

<p>I have just taken the plunge and upgraded my Epson R2880 to an Epson R3880.</p>

<p>I am starting to get more involved with the ABW driver and have reached a question where I am not quite sure of the answer.<br>

<br /> My normal working colour space for editing my images in Photoshop and Lightroom is ProPhoto.<br /> I have just been reading that the ProPhoto Colour Space is in actual fact (Gamma 1.8) and the Epson ABW driver expects to receive a file which is Gamma 2.2.<br>

<br /> I am therefore correct in saying that before printing through the ABW driver, I am better to convert the image from ProPhoto to say Adobe 1998 in Photoshop.<br>

<br /> Ian</p>

[digitaldog]

<p>It wouldn’t be a bad idea but keep in mind that you could find a combo of ProPhoto’s 1.8 gamma and one in ABW that could work. The various settings (Dark, Darker, etc) are actually different gamma settings. Most stick with a 2.2 gamma and use Darker (the default) but you could probably come up with a setting other than that which could work with 1.8. If you don’t want to futz around testing, use Adobe RGB and start with the default (Darker). </p>