Digital BW, The Print

Charles,

I have noted as the list of posts has grown that some people seem to have difficulties with workflows that people in general use without problems. Most people seem to report good results with the RGB curves and the VM inks but a few seem to have no luck at all. Same situation with Piezo inks. Some people print away with never a glitch and others are tearing their hair out.

I have to conclude that there is enough printer-to-printer variation to cause problems. I wish I had a better answer for you. If you like, contact me off list and we can arrange to exchange some step wedges to see if a comparison is of any help. I am on Windows 2000 and PS6 (soon to be PS7) so there is a difference in our systems.

Martin Wesley
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: charles_bandes 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 5:31 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] The continuing saga of my 1280/CIS/VM problems - please help!


  Hi Everyone -

  My problem is that with every curve set I get a weird inversion in my
  stepwedge around the 70% point, this causes images to have a solarized
  look, as 70% grey prints _darker_ than 85%, so there's a weird light
  point in what should be shadow areas. (My config - 1280, nomorecarts
  CIS, MIS VM ink in 4 oz bottles, mac OSX using photoshop7 (but have
  checked with os9 and PS6, same results)) 

  So far I've tried all the Roark and Boley curves with minimal success,
  and I'm getting really frustrated. Have spoken with Bob at MIS who
  swears it isn't an ink problem (though he's investigating right now)
  but I'm also pretty sure it isn't a printer or workflow problem since
  I was getting great prints before using VM carts. Purge patterns look
  pretty much normal, I am _certain_ that I have the ink positions
  correct, certain that I am printing on the right side of the paper,
  and certain that I am using the same settings that gave me good
  results with MIS VM carts before switching to CIS. I'm pretty sure
  that I can rule out software issues, as my system hasn't changed since
  I was printing with carts.

  There was a message from a guy named Kevin in response to my first
  plea saying that he was having similar problems with an MIS CFS system
  and the VM ink - I'm guessing that since he bought the ink around the
  same time I did, and since he's using a different delivery system,
  maybe it really _is_ the ink. That would sure make life easier if it
  were true. Beyond that - does anyone have any thoughts of what might
  be going on?


  --Charley

  cbandes@...



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