Digital BW, The Print

Hello Steven K.

If you still have the Linux boot loader, just dig out an old Win95 
or Win98 boot floppy and run fdisk /mbr and reboot. Voila! No linux 
boot loader.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis <stevek@e...>" <stevek@e...> wrote:
> Hi Paul;
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
> <paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> > I have my latest version of the VM inkset running on the 7500.  
UC 
> VM 4.3
> > (my terminology) is 100% MIS UC clone inks. > 
> 
> Quick work! I hope MIS is just as quick to produce, I can think of 
a 
> couple people awaiting anxiously....
> > I'm not sure why the 7500 with the 7000 driver is producing 
> slightly more
> > prominent dots than the 7000 and 9000 do with the MIS VM 
inkset.  
> Factors
> > could include the 100% pigment (no dye) composition of the UC VM 
> 4.3 inkset.
> > I suspect the small amount of dye that appears to be in the 
older 
> inkset
> > could have softened the edges of those dots. 
> 
> When I first ran my 7500 I had GEN 4 K in it, and it seemed that 
> made the problem worse, at least for me. Of course that ink 
probably 
> has a lot more dye in it that the "all pigment" blacks??? 
> 
>   Finally, it could be
> > that the 7500 uses an increased head voltage that pumps out more 
> ink per
> > dot, making each dot darker.
> 
> This one gets my vote, I think the machine is just set up to spit 
> out more black ink to make up for the whimpy D-max of the Arc-K.
> 
> I would be curious to compare dot-size & graininess, would you 
> consider exchanging a print / grayscale?
> 
> Also: For those who where curious I have an amusing horror story 
to 
> report on my efforts to install and learn Linux so I could try 
Gimp-
> print. The short version is; I installed SuSE which seemed to have 
> the lates version of everything, couldn't even get my printers to 
> work. Formatted the drive, installed Red Hat, could get my 
printers 
> to work. Went back to Suse, still no go. And all this time, mind 
> you, damn near nothing else worked either: no modem. no audio, 
> rudimentary scanning, Suse wouldn't drive my monitor properly, in 
> short, a mess. And then the fun began: I decided to scothch the 
> whole thing, but discovered that I couldn't get rid of the Linux 
> bootloader. Before I figured out how, I tried 3 'repair 
> installations' of Win XP, and the only thing that got 'repaired' 
was 
> my internet connection, I no longer have one, and don't have the 
> option of setting up a new one. I am now online through a second 
> installation of Win XP on the drive that I had Linux. Bah-humbug!
> 
> One note however; for anyone using Linux already, who maybe hasn't 
> updated recenlty: The Gimp-print driver that Roy is using is 
4.3.4; 
> That's still very developmental; the one before that 4.3.3, is 
> included in SuSE and other places, and already supports quadtone 
B&W 
> printing. The release notes state that it hasn't been tweaked for 
> any particular ink/paper sets, so it would still require some fine-
> tuning, but it might be worth checking out for those inclined to 
> experiment
> 
> Steve K