Digital BW, The Print

Bob,

I made some tests with my 1290 (same as 1280) and Epson's Premium Glossy
paper to compare the result with my Piezo prints, which I'm making on
another 1290 printer and on Hahnemuhle PR. I printed with 1440 dpi and I had
some visible dots in the 0 - 30 % black area but far from disturbing and
only visible at a very close distance, except for the 0 - 5 % black area,
which was visible also at up to a 18 in distance. The rest of the grayscale
was just a bit "grainy", almost like TRI-X. Nice look. I was quite impressed
by the linearity of the "paper curve". I think that I will use BO on Premium
Glossy paper in the future to achieve that silver grain look. Unfortunately
it's not archival when printed with the 1290. With a 2100 (2200) it would
be. I'm definitely joining the BO club and remain as a member in the Piezo
club as well.

Martin Glader



----- Original Message -----
From: <Bob@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] WHEN will we get simple, reliable BW printing??


> Sam: my 1280 has BO dots that cannot be seen with the naked eye using
> the Epson driver. Exactly the same as using the Woolf workflow or
> Roark workflow with appropriate inksets. I only print at 1440 dpi. My
> workflow is the same as Clayton's.
>
> Interesting comment about dot size being related to print head height
> adjustment with a 1280 at
> <http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=004TrJ>  But I
> use the 0 setting which is supposed to yeild bigger dots and have no
> problems.
>
> Bob Michaels