Digital BW, The Print

Hi,

Does anybody know how to get to the transfer curve settings in photoshop 7? I don't see any way to address this, looks like it has been left
out of the dialogue boxes.

Jerry



bellis33624 wrote:

> I installed the MIS variable tone inks in my Epson 1160 printer (used
> with a PC and Crane Museo paper)and downloaded the Roark curves for
> that printer yesterday. Before installing the inks I used the MIS
> cleaning cartridges out of an abundance of caution since the black
> inks I'd been using weren't Epson inks. In making my various color
> settings in Photoshop and in the printer dialogue boxes I've followed
> to the best of my ability the 11 footnotes that are underneath the
> Printer/Curve/Paper/Mode table on the MIS web site for these inks,
> which are pretty much identical to the setttins stated in Mr. Roark's
> message #570 posted to this group on August 10, 2001. I've also tried
> each of the four curves and played around with most of the Photoshop
> color settings and properties settings, making changes of one sort or
> another and then Epson dialogue box print settings in an effort to
> get something resembling a decent print. I've also cleaned the
> nozzles and checked the alignment of the printing cartridges.
> Regardless of what I do, only the darkest areas print, there are no
> midtones or highlights. Some look slightly better than others
> depending on what I changed but none except the first two that I made
> look anything like a decent print (the first two weren't great but at
> least they kind of looked like a photograph).  The prints actually
> look almost exactly like line prints (i.e. all black and white, no
> grays, and the white is just the paper white with no detail). I
> thought at first that only the black ink was printing but the
> cartridge level in the Epson dialogue box shows that the color inks
> actually are depleting faster than the black ink so I assume they
> must be going somewhere. I'd suspect a problem with my printer except
> that I was making very nice prints using the standard Epson color
> inks and a third party black ink, with no special curves, immediately
> before installing the MIS inks and the Roark curves. If anyone has
> experienced a similar problem, I'd appreciate hearing from you. I'm
> going to call MIS this morning but thought I'd post this here too in
> case MIS is unable to help. Thanks in advance. Brian
>
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