Digital BW, The Print

Forgot to ask - any update on IP??

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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