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Re: [Digital BW] little dots through loupe

2002-11-11 by frankg_photo

> Some people notice the toner dots in the highlights with the 
standard vm
> inkset and the 1160, but I haven't heard too many people mention 
dots with
> the vm-s.
> 
> For less dots under a loupe, use a hextone machine.  FS/Piezo 
inksets, which
> have a slightly lighter gray and no color contrast between the 
various inks,
> might give you slightly fewer dots under the loupe.  Also, the 
Piezo/R9
> software starts the black lower down in the scale, so if dots in 
the dark
> shadows are a problem, that might reduce them somewhat.
> 

In general I  am pretty happy with the printer/inks/curves. I noticed 
the dots tonight on an image I was working on & hoped I could reduce 
them. I cant consider another printer or even piezo software - $ are 
a big issue now. I want to maximize what I have. So only if changing 
the inkset will help will I be able to consider that. Perhaps weaning 
my CFS off the Sepia>Neutral inkset - but which inks would I replace 
them with ? With this set I Mostly use the Neutral curve anyway, & 
occasionally the Med Warm.
Frank

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