Digital BW, The Print

No I'm not sure. Hard to say as it's highly subjective. You might look
at the prints and think the VM standard/1280 was sharper than the
2200/IP5.

I did have the foresight to compare a print that has a sharp
transistion in it- it jumps from maybe 75%k to maybe 30%k along an
maybe 1/16 inch wide line. In the past I've had abrupt changes using
VM depending on paper used; with IP5 it blends better. So if I was to
base it on that alone, my guess is that IP5 is not more contrasty.

Of course, since IP5 seems to compress those last few percent k
values, you could make an arguement based on that that from 0 to 96%k
it is more contrasty I guess.

Or maybe that a coarser dot pattern might produce a sharper appearing
image? Beats me...

When I look at a visual gradation from 0 to 100%k IP5 has a very even
transistion, except that last few %k already mentioned. This is on
Photorag and Eclipse.
Jim H.





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Truman Prevatt
<tprevatt@m...> wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Are you sure that the "sharpness" you are seeing is not just more
contrast?
> 
> Truman
> 
> jim hayes wrote:
> 
> >I can compare 2200/IP5 (Windows) output to 1280/VM standard and see
> >dots in highlights (Vm/1280 is continuous), or on Paul's stepwedge.
> >But it is a matter of degree. They are really small, you have to be up
> >close and comparing side by side.
> >
> >The shadows are a bit compressed as well. Somewhere around 96%-100% it
> >is hard to tell the diff between 1% k patches.
> >
> >However, when I look at a print done on both 2200 and 1280 with VM,
> >the IP5 print somehow looks sharper, but it's hard to describe how.
> >
> >I wouldn't advise anyone considering 2200/IP5/Epson UC to not try it
> >out first for themselves. The demo may be available for IP5 but
> >borrowing an 2200 might be an issue.
> >
> >So if MIS has "quad"(?) carts/ink for the 2200, then Paul has done
> >curves for it or?
> >Jim H.
> >
> >
> >
> >--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Olson
> ><jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Jim you say you are getting dots in the higlights on a 2200 printer? I
> >>thought you were speaking of a 1280! I can't imagine the 2200 printer
> >>having ANY dots!!!
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>They don't have the inkset set up for the 2200 do they? I was
thinking
> >>>of trying them (they are the 4.35, alais "eboni" inkset right?)
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Yes, the inks are available in bulk or cartridges now.
> >>
> >>Jerry
> >>    
> >>
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