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Piezo Driver and MIS FS inks, Curve for Piezo files

2001-08-23 by Ruhrfoto/Bernd L.

For those of us, who have been Piezographers so far and have 
saved  their images for straight piezo prints  - and now want to 
print  MIS Full Spectrum Inks through the Cone Driver and have 
saved  their images for straight piezo prints ....  (puuuh) .... I have 
worked out  a curve which should bring identicall prints with the 
MIS FS inks - at least on an 1160. 
I calibrated with my eyeballs printing the 21 step image and 
checked it with my print exchange picture, which I printed with 
both inks innert 5 minutes on two 1160s.
(Result: can“t tell the 21 steps prints and the two images apart.)

Specification:
1160 printer, works on EAM and Photo Rag with the Orwell 
profile.

Here is how I do it:
In PS open a file which is saved for Piezo printing
Go:   >Image>adjust>curves

fix the 95 % value

change the following values:
85 > 88
81 > 84
75 > 80
50 > 57
25 > 32
  5 > 7

Save Curve as starting point for later images and fine tuning, 
apply curve, print.

If anybody gives it a try ... let me know how it works.
Bernd

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