Digital BW, The Print

The microweave look diminishes on dry down leaving the impression of a
rougher texture than with my old heads. With my tweaked Randall workflow I'm
getting smoother textures, I'm just not quite there yet with subtle details
on the step wedge transitions. I'm trying to nail Tyler's 1% degree Z test
which is a 'bastard' but the ultimate I think! I'll admit to cheating by
doing a 'almost there' tweak in RGB and then trying to fine tune it under
softproof as an action first.

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Randall workflow


> Julian,
>
> Just a thought. On my 1280's I am finding that I can minimize or get rid
of
> this type of what shall we call it, loupe level banding, linear artifacts,
> by trying different image resolutions in the files sent to the printer. In
> the end we may be doomed to live with this to some degree. If you really
can
> only see it with a loupe should you be worrying about it? Ultra picky has
a
> point of diminishing returns. I know. I'm an expert at driving myself
crazy.
>
> Martin Wesley
>
> http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Thomas" <julianthomas@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Randall workflow
>
>
> > What I've got isn't feeding type banding as it is a regular 'weave'
> pattern
> > with small microbanding under a loupe. The usual windex tricks helped
and
> > after drydown it is almost smooth with the piezo driver - just not as
> smooth
> > as it was. I've tweaked the Randall curves to get a better fit for my
> > printer (only on EAM at the moment) and I'm getting good results. If I'm
> > being ultra picky I'd say I'm loosing some details in the transition
from
> > shadow to midtones on prints, but  step wedge is pretty close - but I'm
> > measuring by scanning and then using t PS -  not measuring off the
paper.
> > Still I'm quite intersted in messing with curves now! Got a hole load of
> > CMYK stuff to read too.
> >
> > Julian
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tony Terlecki" <ajt@...>
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Randall workflow
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:05:55PM +0200, Julian Thomas wrote:
> > > > Thanks Jeff - I've been playing all morning! I'm not getting the
> banding
> > I
> > > > was with the piezo driver ( new heads, hah!), but I've not got the
> tonal
> > > > match yet,t but it is close! Certainly an option for those who have
an
> > 1160
> > > > that bands with the piezo plugin - although the more I work on the
> heads
> > the
> > > > smoother it is getting.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Julian,
> > >
> > > Which tricks are working to help get the new heads bedded in?
> > >
> > > I've just discovered that by completely removing the plastic parts
that
> > > held the pizza wheels on my 1160 (rather than leaving them in with the
> two
> > > outermost wheels intact) that I've helped some banding which was
> occurring
> > > about 1 inch into the print. I think that the gearing which is
supposed
> to
> > > move these wheels in synch with the main paper trasnsport must be
> slightly
> > > out causing some conflicting movement of the paper as it was being
> > advanced.
> > >
> > > Hasn't improved enough for me to start using the Piezo driver yet but
> I'm
> > > sure there are yet more tricks to try!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tony Terlecki
> > > ajt@...
> > >
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