Digital BW, The Print

Check John Brownlow's site, I believe he wrote/adapted the old Mac driver -
www.pinkheadedbug.com there was apparently only one line of code needed if I
remember rightly

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "royvharrington" <roy@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Mac curves/posterization


>
> 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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