Digital BW, The Print

Tom--I have been a hellava time with the RIP. Since it was printing so slow I uninstalled everything and hooked up a firewire connection to the computer in addition to the USB connection. I could not get the RIP to print anything except gobbledegook. I must have installed and uninstalled the RIP 20 times but finally I did get the RIP to install. 

But, now I am getting the same muted red color that you are getting. I never had this problem with the LTP connection. I am still working on trying to get back to where I was when the prints looked pretty good. Only I am getting tired of wasting ink and paper. If and when I do get it back to where I was satisfied with the prints, I will try to remember the settings which made that possible.

Peter
  From: Thomas Fors 

  After all the settings for the Epson RIP that were flying around this list
  last week, I tried it again on the 2200 and somehow screwed it up to the
  point that everything was coming out a sick muted red color.  So, I
  completely uninstalled and reinstalled the software (Win XP).

  My first print after the reinstall got rid of the red color, but I still see
  the problem I was seeing before:  warm/brown in the 5-10% patches of Paul
  Roark's step wedge.  Cool blue/purple at 15-20%.  Warm again from 25-40%,
  and then a magenta cast from 45-85%.

  I then made changes to the driver settings one at a time to see where the
  red problem came from.  It appears that when I select the MatteBK+LightBK
  ink setting in
  Start/ControlPanel/Printers/.../Properties/DeviceSettings/InstallableOptions
  /BlackInkCombination, I get the horrible red color in my prints using both
  B&W and Color settings when printing.  I even tried restarting Photoshop and
  PServer and the only way to get rid of the red was to switch back to
  PhotoBK+LightBK even though I'm using Matte Black ink.

  I've seen one post that someone was able to get the MatteBK+LightBK setting
  to work.  I'd be interested in hearing from others if they get the same red
  results I get using that setting.

  --Tom



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