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Re: Three Articles

2002-12-20 by danielstaver <daniel@petraflux.com>

I followed your recipe for using black only on my 2100, but the 
results were really, really horrible. Clipped highlights, huge dots, 
banding... Basically everything you don't want to see in a print. 

After fiddling around for a while I got the bright idea of switching 
off all adjustments in the gray balancer and suddenly the prints 
looked perfect!

Also, the 2880dpi setting definitely makes a difference in this 
printing mode - even at some viewing distance I can still tell the 
2880 print by the smoother textures and more accurate details.

Whether or not I like the dots remains to be seen, I'll have to do 
some more testing, but it sure was nice to finally see a perfectly 
neutral print from my printer. Thanks!

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