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RE: [Digital BW] Getting perfect neutral prints from Epson 7600/9600 etc

2002-08-19 by Austin Franklin

> With something controlling the Epson at the ink level, you'd be
> shocked at the
> difference. The dither and smoothness from IP and the Dmax (at
> least printing
> B&W) is vastly, vastly superior to anything you can get off the
> Epson using the
> driver supplied. The key is the driver. What we get from Epson
> just doesn't cut
> it!

Hi TDD,

I don't understand your dMax comment.  The black ink is the blackest you can
get out of the printer...right?  If you printed a patch of the darkest black
using one "driver", and the same image using the other "driver"...how could
they differ so significantly?  There should be no dithering going on for the
darkest black with either...and it's the same ink...  Have you looked at
what it's doing under a microscope?

Regards,

Austin

P.S.  Do you actually have a name, aside from "thedigitaldog" that is?

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