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Re: [Digital BW] Photo Expo

2017-09-12 by richard@...

John Thacker sent me the curves he was using, and the bronzing was coming from the unsmoothed curves without enough overlap using my QuadSmoothing tool. I have always found the print shield or Hahnemühle protective spray to be better at getting rid of the bronzing (and somewhat easier) than using the second pass of GO. I haven't used the single application piezoPro stuff to know how that differs.

As for what tools can do what: this ins't meant to be a pissing contest. The Piezography tools do things differently and have a different set of requirements for how they are used. However, it is possible to load any existing quad curves into my curve smoothing tool to reshape any curve on a channel by channel basis while maintaining the same total ink load (or increasing the ink load with the boost setting). I know all of this isn't "Piezography sanctioned" so of course (and understandably) walker is going to say you need his stuff and that is all they can support. I built my stuff because there was no other option for anything other than strict Piezography or traditional QTR shaped curves. I knew it could be a whole lot better and easier for people who wanted/needed to build their own curves. Yes, I make a few dollars of the stuff I make so I can afford to test and support the tools I make, but I don't really care if you buy mine or walker's. They are mean't for different kinds of people, but I would be hard pressed to say that one is better than the other in terms of the final print quality.

Hope that helps,
Richard Boutwell

http://www.richardboutwell.com/


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