Digital BW, The Print

Antonis and Robert,

Thanks for your suggestions.  I have run a couple of cleaning cycles 
and performed an alignment on my 2200.  Neither worked.  I also 
worked up a new test file, just in case the file I had been using was 
corrupted.  No luck.

So, I am stuck for awhile, because I am running OPM off an iBook that 
I do not use for image editing.  I use a PC for images and will have 
to wait for IJC for Windows before I can check out my 2200.  I have 
no need to buy both platform versions.

Antonis, since I see the banding in only the 100% patch with OPM, 
does that mean the problem definitely lies in the black jet?  Would 
your black single-jet profile for troubleshooting tell me anything 
definitive?

Helene 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Antonis Ricos" 
<antonisphoto@y...> wrote:
> Helene,
> 
> thanks for the kind words!....  
> 
> Adding to what Robert and Carl have already said: banding of this 
sort is not 
> likely to be profile related or even software related (dither etc). 
Possibly the 
> black head is doing something that is exaggerated by the profile, 
but not 
> caused by it. 
> 
> If you were able to open the profile in IJC, you would see that at 
100% there 
> is very little gray running and nothing else (with the WARM 
profile). With other 
> profiles/workflows it's possible that all jets are firing to some 
extend and that 
> would hide whatever the black head is doing. 
> 
> Eventually I may upload single-jet profiles for troubleshooting 
purposes, but, 
> of course, if you have IJC you can just choose to automatically 
print each of 
> the active inks in a chosen profile separately as an individual 
grayscale. You 
> can then isolate the problem better. For example in the case of a 
2200 WARM 
> profile, you would automatically get two grayscales printed - the 
gray ink first, 
> and below it the black ink - and you can then see if one head is 
banding and 
> the other not.
> 
> I use this all the time to check my printers before making prints. 
The nozzle 
> checks don't tell the whole story. They could show clean,  but a 
certain head 
> may band. Runnning head cleanings sometimes solves the banding, 
even 
> though nozzle checks continue to look clean. The easiest way to 
check 
> afterwards is to run the IJC separate-ink scales again. Besides 
banding, they 
> also show where an ink starts and ends and how it behaves across 
the scale. 
> They serve to verify what the profile is doing. 
> 
> Regarding your question about the shipping profiles: IJC / OPM are 
not 
> meant to encourage the use of canned profiles. They ship with some 
as 
> examples and some just because those of us doing beta tests made 
them . But 
> the idea is you can make your own - probably just by tweaking the 
shipping 
> ones. Eventually we will be exchanging profiles (by uploading to 
the files 
> section of this list), so a larger variety will be available. Even 
so, the 
> maximum benefit of IJC comes from enabling you to fine tune a 
profile to your 
> particular printing setup.
> 
> The supported printers are the same as the free OPM download. It is 
free not 
> because it is a "limited" demo, but because it is based on Open 
Source code 
> - like gimp print - and what you see is what you get (i.e. the free 
download is 
> the complete, full functioning version) and its code is in the 
public domain. 
> The "catch" if you will, is that without IJC (the for-pay part), 
you are limited to 
> canned profiles and their limitations.
> 
> 
> Antonis
> 
> 
> Antonis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "grdglass" 
> <grdglass@a...> wrote:
> 
> > To eliminate my 2200 as the cause of the problem, I did a nozzle 
> > check and printed my test image and step wedges through two other 
> > printing applications.  These were all perfect and didn't exhibit 
> > either of the OPM problems.
> > 
> > Any ideas what is happening? 
> 
>  
> > A few other questions.  IJC, as purchased, will have a full array 
of 
> > profiles, correct?  And, do you know which printers will be 
covered 
> > besides those currently in the free OPM download?
> > 
> > Helene