Digital BW, The Print

>I wonder if he could be confusing the dot pattern of the 3000 for film
>grain? It looks just like it.

>In any case, If he's trying to print a grainy print on a 3000 printer, I
>would certainly expect his grain pattern and the printers dot
>pattern would cause an undesireable effect, sort of like a moîre pattern.

If "he" means me, then no, I'm not confusing anything. I know the
difference between a dot pattern and film grain and a moiré pattern.

My problem is not dots but lack of dots: in some circumstances and with
some images -- including the one that I happened to use to test out the MIS
VM quad system -- areas that should exhibit a RANGE of tones exhibit only a
SINGLE tone which then transitions abruptly into ANOTHER tone. As I've
described elsewhere, this doesn't always happen; but it happened to me in
spades and I don't like it. I've taken steps to deal with the problem,
namely switching over to using only black ink, a procedure that suits me
better in any case because of its logistical and aesthetic simplicity.

And anyway, I'm using an 1160.

-- Nick

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