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Re: [Digital BW] Mac curves/posterization

2002-05-16 by royvharrington

Here's the workflow from the MIS site:
http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/workflow_roar
k.html

It says for 1160 use HWM, and for 1280 use PQIJ.

There are many "settings" that are very critical for proper
operation.  In general they are usually the default but if you've
gone in trying to tweak things its very easy to have something
wrong.   So far I'm still using the 1160 with OS 9 for printing
but I've slowly converting to OS X.  BTW, anybody have a driver
for the 1160 under OS X?

Roy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> 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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