Digital BW, The Print

I managed to do it by copying the 1280 CD to my hard drive. Then I 
replaced the "drivers" and "monitor" folder of the 1280 with those of 
the 1290 and installed the printer as normal using the setup as normal - 
except from the hard drive. It stll thinks it's a  1280 and works fine.

I, however, didn't notice any difference on the step wedge using the 
1290 curves compaired to the 1280 curves on the website. In fact I found 
the "vmp-n3.acv" from the 1280 Neutral folder did a very nice job and 
the 1280 version 13 cuves did a nice job. But the 1290 curves on the 
1280 seem to be lacking in the back areas of the step wedge.

Cheers
Truman

mundavian wrote:

>No special hacking needed - after installing the 1290 "printer" 
>(software/driver) go to the properties of the printer and under the 
>Ports  tab, select the port (e.g. LPT1) to which the printer is 
>connected.  This automatically sends 1290 print jobs to that 
>port/printer.
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>I haven't seen any improvements in results printing on the 1280 with 
>a 1290 driver.  I've used Paul Roark's 1290 curves on the 1280 and my 
>wedges aren't any better (still get some lack of linearity in the 70-
>85% area) than they were with the 1280 curves.   
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>Mundi
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>>I tried it - a fresh install on my laptop. But somehow the plug and 
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>play 
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>>didn't detect a 1290 and the 1290 setup didn't recogonize the 1280 
>>hardware. So there needs to be some hacking around. So anyone have 
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>the 
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>>secret?
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>>Truman
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>>Martin Glader wrote:
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>>>>For those who have used the 1290 dirver on the 1280, how much of 
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>a pain
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>>>>was it to fool the 1280 into using the 1290 driver, or was it 
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>just a
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>>>>matter of uninstalling the 1280 driver and installing the 1290 
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>driver?
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>>>Why uninstall? Can't you just install a "new" printer with a 
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>different
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>>>driver.
>>>Martin Glader
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