Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Smith" <lsmith@...>
To: "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint yahoogroups.com"
<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Piezotone clipping?


> On 8/7/02 3:25 AM, "mfp90021" <mfp90021@...> wrote:
>
> > What I am noticing
> > is the new inks don't have as smooth a scale between these
> > tones.  The prints are showing noise or clipping between these
> > tones.  I was wondering if anybody else was experiencing this
> > problem?  Do the new selenium inks do this as well?  I would
> > greatly appreciate comments on this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
>
>
> I'm seeing this as well.  Its a pain...  It is not noticeable in the step
> wedge but it sure is in the images...
>
Lawrence,

If the step wedge prints okay then the problem is in the individual image
file(s).

In response to Michael's post, there are now 6 ink set available for the
Piezo driver. My experience is that they all do not match up exactly the
same way even with the same driver. I guess it would be surprising if they
did since it must be difficult to get precisely the same ink densities. So
far all of them have been very linear though and step wedges printed on my
1280 all looked quite good. The difference is enough though that a file
optimized with one ink set may need some tweaking if you switch to another
ink set.

Martin Wesley