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Re: Image Print / 2200 / highlights

2003-07-25 by Antonis Ricos

> I'm particularly interested in how dithered the highlights are, and how 
> bad the metamerism is.  I've got some indoor/flash shots shot on 400 
> that look more grainy than normal, mostly just in the highlights.  Could 
> be film grain, but it doesn't look like it under the loupe.

Justin,

the 2200 only has one gray ink. No matter whose driver you use there will be 
more highlight dots than a full quad machine. For the ideal grayscale print, 
either you have to load an extra gray (or 2) in the 2200, or go to the other 
known quad inksets on older printers.  Much as the 2200 is very nice, if you 
need to take a loupe to your prints, you'll see those highlight dots.

Antonis

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