Digital BW, The Print

I am using Crane Museo...and since I'm real new at this I haven't
tried any other papers.  I will pick up some Somerset Velvet and see
how that works - thanks for the recommendation. Have you used 
Somerset Photo Enhanced paper?  MIS is recommending it for 6 color
quadtones over the Somerset Velvet. I just started printing step
wedges for all the curves I have, which has been very helpful to see
the differences.  So far, I agree with you that Tyler's curves are
producing smoother results that Paul's.  Thanks for the words of
encouragement - I'm getting better results already...

-Murph

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Bandes
<byronbulb@y...>" <byronbulb@y...> wrote:
> The curves are _very_ paper sensitive, what papers are you using?
> 
> I find that I get good results on Legion Photo Matte (fine) , Somerset
> Velvet (excellent), and Eclipse Satine (acceptible, but not great) but
> still have posterization problems with EAM and most other papers I've
> tried. 
> 
> I have better luck with Tyler's curves than Paul's. Also I have had
> better luck with the OS9 drivers than the OSX ones, though currently I
> am only using OSX. 
> 
> Don't give up, it can work, it is just going to take some practice,
> and lots and lots of stepwedges.
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "murph278
> <maybeck@a...>" <maybeck@a...> wrote:
> > I'm using an Epson 1280 with Photoshop Mac OS X or 9, MIS VM inks and
> > am having the posterization problem I've often read about on this
> > group in the darktones.  I've tried both Paul and Tyler's curves.  It
> > seems as though only the PC users have been able to get the 1290
> > driver to work to fix this problem.  Is this true?  Is there any easy
> > way to get my mac to believe my 1280 is a 1290 so I can print
> > adequately?
> > 
> > I'm kinda bummed cause I just got started and already worried I might
> > have a systemic problem printing high-quality with the 1280 driver. 
> > Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
> > 
> > -Murph