Digital BW, The Print

Corin_Dickinson wrote:
> I can not find the right workflow for Epson 1280, MIS VM, PR 
curves, 
> EAM, and PS7. My prints looked posterized in the 70-80% tones. I 
have 
> tried changing dot gain, RGB, sRGB, 1290 curves, I just can't 
correct 
> the problem. Any solutions?
> Thanks, Corin

Corin,

I've been printing with PS6, VM, PR curves and EAM on my 1280 and 
liked it most of the time but I was seeing some posterization and 
also slight banding sometimes.  Tried all kinds of combinations and 
just now tried printing with Qimage.  Did everything in PS6 and 
saved the file with the PR curves.  Opened it in Qimage and in the 
print settings set it for 2880 dpi with all the other settings as 
per the PR workflow.  Why wouldn't I have the 2880dpi option in 
PS6?  Anyway I turned off the printer profile in Qimage thinking 
that I didn't want to double profile (Q doesn't have a "same as 
source" setting) and let her rip.  It took forever to print of 
course but what a difference.  I'm going to play with this 
combination some more.  I wonder what BO will look like in Q?  Has 
anybody else used Qimage?

Tom Husband