Hello Alan, I'm baaaack!!! In photoshop when your image is on the screen, press control-P; which brings up your print boxes. Click on Print and another box will give you your printer to choose if you have more than one printer. click on the Properties box and from the next box choose Advanced which is about half way down in the box. The page that comes up next gives the quality of output. This is where you choose 360dpi, 720dpi, 1440dpi, or in the case of color 2880dpi. I hope this helps some. You say the banding isn't visible but with a 15x loupe; is it visible with the naked eye. Have you printed a nozzle check to see if any of the nozzles might be blocked up with an air bubble. do no more than 3 cleanings at a time, then print an image before doing another nozzle check and cleaning. Let me know if there is anything else. Your friend in photography, Johnny Eades --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Zimmerman" <azimmerman1@c...> wrote: > Hi Johnny, many thanks for the Cj web site. I have meticulously followed and loaded his workflow. Still banding visible with 15x loupe and clean nozzles. Now a stupid question, I can't find a menu to set the epson 1280 printer dirver for 1440 dpi as he instructs. > I;ve checked the full PS 7 " print menu" and the color settings drop down menu but don't find a place to specify 1440 DPI on the printer.Or the Gray Gray gamma 2.2. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. > Alan Zimmerman > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Johnny Eades > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:45 PM > Subject: Re: [Digital BW]Epson cartridge MIS black clog won't go away on epson 1280 > > > Hello Alan, > It's me again. There is a good site to go to for any information on > black only printing. http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm > > This really makes it simple to get a good idea of what an image > looks like before using up the expensive hextone inks. I followed > the information on the website and printed it out for later > reference. This was during the time I used a Canon S750 printer for > printing my images. It was not a good printer for doing that. > > Quick outline of black only printing. > 1. Edit>Color settings>check Advanced mode. > 2. Gray>Gray Gamma 2.2 > 3. RGB>Preserve Embedded Profiles CMYK>Preserve embedded Profiles > Gray>Preserve Embedded Profiles > 4. Profile Mismatches Check all these > 5. Conversion Options Engine>Adobe(ACE) Intent>Perceptual check Use > black Point Compensation and Use Dither (8-bit/channel images) > 6. Save this as your default workspace under Adobe Photoshop. > 7. After working up your image in RGB assign it the profile of > grayscale and make it a 16 bit image only for printing Black Only. > 8. Control-P to bring up print menu. Indicate Black ink only to be > used and not color mode. Use 1440 DPI setting and High Speed. I know > others say do not use High Speed, but I have found that if I don't > use it, I get microbanding in the lighter portions of the image. > True, it may create more foam in the cartridge, but I can suck that > and the ink out and refill will less stress than seeing an image go > down the tubes because of the banding issue. > > This is a condensed method of doing it, the detailed version is on > Clayton Jones' Black Only Printing website. > > The only reason I use hextone inks is the neutral color to the image > rather than the slightly brown natural carbon pigment color. > > Hope this gets you started out OK. > > Your friend in Photography > > Johnny Eades > > > > > > > > > > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Alan > Zimmerman" <azimmerman1@c...> wrote: > > Johnny, thanks again, The math favoring self filling is convincing > to say the least. > > Since the last emails I have finally gotten a clean nozzle check > but still a visible banding on MIS Black only cart. Is there a > workflow for Black only, I seem to have seen a proponent of that on > line, but can't locate again. > > When my quattones arrive, I plan to switch, knowing the quads are > superior in smooth tonality. However, in the meantime, I have a > print deadline within two days so I will have to find a black only > cart workflow. Any suggestions or links would be most appreciated. > > Alan Zimmerman > > azimmerma1@c... > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Johnny Eades > > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 11:11 AM > > Subject: Re: [Digital BW]Epson cartridge MIS black clog won't go > away on epson 1280 > > > > > > Hello alan, > > > > I bought two virgin cartridges that had never had ink inside and > > filled them myself with the syringe and bottles of ink for the > > proper chamber. The price comparison is unbelievable. A > cartridge > > for hextone inksets runs about $30.00 and an 8 ounce bottle of > ink > > runs $16.00. If each chamber of the six chambers is filled with > 7CC > > of ink, then an 8 ounce bottle will fill each chamber about 16 > > times. If you had to purchase a new cartridge when one chamber > was > > empty then 16 X $30 is $480 and the price for 6 bottles of ink > at > > $16 is $96 dollars. Which seems reasonable to you and me??? > > > > Your friend in Photography > > > > Johnny Eades > > jeades1@s... > > > > > > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Alan > > Zimmerman" <azimmerman1@c...> wrote: > > > Johnny, thanks for the response, Since I don't refill my own > > cartridges, guess I'll need to get a syringe then a small bottle > to > > temporarily store.Are you using the inidvidual cart. or the > refill > > system. My cart. came direct from MIS already filled. I'm > surprised > > they would have air build up but I'm willing to try anything. > > > thanks, > > > Alan Zimmerman > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Johnny Eades > > > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:41 PM > > > Subject: Re: [Digital BW]Epson cartridge MIS black clog > won't go > > away on epson 1280 > > > > > > > > > Hello Alan, > > > > > > I use an epson 1280 also, and when I get any banding; it > appears > > to > > > be air bubbles insted of a clogged nozzle. What I do to > solve > > the > > > problem is to tape over all the vent holes on the top of the > > > cartridge and use a 60CC syringe to suck out all the ink and > > foam > > > that has collected in the chamber. I reuse the ink and foam. > The > > > foam is just ink with air in it, which goes away and return > to > > solid > > > ink again. Then i refill the cartridge with ink and leave it > > sitting > > > overnight. The next day everything works just fine. Try this > one > > > time and I think you will be surprised how quickly the > banding > > goes > > > away. If you try to print too soon, you may get pooling on > the > > > print; and you may still get pooling if you print at high > speed > > > anyway. > > > > > > Your friend in Photography, > > > > > > Johnny Eades > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Alan > > > Zimmerman" <azimmerman1@c...> wrote: > > > > I just started using MIS cartridge inks on Epson 1280. > Printer > > had > > > worked flawlessly with Epson dye based inks previously. > Within > > one > > > day, with the Mis Black cartridge I experienced banding on a > > > grayscale file with Black only, (no gray or quad cartridge > on > > > line).. I then did 3 nozzle cleans and banding diminished > but > > still > > > visible with 15x loupe. next print same story. as of this > second > > > day, and after 10 nozzle cleanings no relief. Any one have > any > > > suggestions? > > > > BTW, the same image file printed on Epson black only > cartridge > > and > > > Epson dye had much less visible banding under 15x loupe.? > > > > Would are COne system Piezzo inks less likely to clog-- --- > > > > From: Andrew Brilliant > > > > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:28 AM > > > > Subject: [Digital BW] CIS Black CLOG on 1160 wont go > away.... > > > > > > > > > > > > Ugh got a real bad clog on my 1160. CIS Black ink. > > > > Have tried all the usual solutions. Both liquid and > > > mechanical. Cones > > > > tips and tried ammonia and alcohol. Also some > > strange > > > cleaning fluid > > > > from that company in Las Vegas. Did not work. > > > > I hardly get any ink coming out of that nozzle, the > numbers > > > don't even > > > > print. > > > > > > > > I suppose I have to get it serviced. > > > > > > > > One last idea was to get an original Epson black > cartridge > > and > > > see if that > > > > ink will open up the nozzles. Does anyone think that is > a > > good > > > idea or are > > > > there some new ideas for cleaning . I have not looked > > around > > > for cleaning > > > > ideas since last summer. > > > > > > > > I need to start making some new B&W print quadtones. > By > > the > > > way this clog > > > > is with MIS inks!!! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Check out www.brilliantpictures.com > > > > > > > > Andrew Brilliant > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with > MSN 8. > > > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! 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Re: [Digital BW]Epson cartridge MIS black only banding won't go away on epson 1280
2003-05-23 by Johnny Eades