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Re: [Digital BW] Mac curves/posterization

2002-05-16 by Jerry Olson

I believe its the Photo Quality Inkjet setting for the 1160, and the
Heavyweight matte setting for the 1280. But sometime you get time, you
should run a small test wedge using all the profiles so you can see
their differences; there are big differences between them. The backlit
film setting will most definitely give you the blackest blacks you can
get, but on certain images (not all) you will see posterization.

Jerry



wooismyid wrote:
> 
> Forgive me, but don't Paul's VM curves suggest using the Photo
> Quality Inkjet Paper setting (not HWM)?
> 
> With all respect to Paul and his wonderful work, I've found that
> his curves yield a great deal of posterization for me. I've tried
> various settings and paper choices and have run many sheets of
> paper through my Eppy 1280/Mac, but in the end I realized that
> some images (paritcularly high-contrast scenes) posterize no
> matter what. So far, I've had my best luck with the cool curve on
> Legion Photo Matte using the Photo Quality Inket Paper setting.
> YMMV.
> 
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