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Re: [Digital BW] Another QTR2 problem... Horizontal banding

2003-08-10 by Carl Schofield

Sounds great Daniel.  So with these ink loads you can get warm, cool, 
neutral, sepia, and a variety of intermediate blends - can't ask for 
more than that.  I suppose you could also load the PK ink into the LK 
slot and also have the ability to print on RC papers.

Carl
On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 02:22  PM, Daniel Staver wrote:

> It's really strange. If there was some problem with the printing head 
> or
> cartridges I would assume it showed when printing with the Epson driver
> as well, but there everything looks perfect. I don't need a loupe to 
> see
> the microbanding either, it's clearly visible with the naked eye. The
> curves with 100% toner seems to mask out the microbanding, but as soon
> as the toner is reduced it shows up again.
>
> Besides that I now get beautiful prints. I've linearized a warm and a
> cool curve, and blending between them works perfectly. I printed the
> same image where I discovered the posterization earlier, and it now
> looks really great.
>
> I'm also having some fun mixing new toners:
> http://daniel.staver.no/img/qtr2toning1.jpg
>
> 1. Warm curve with K, UT-C, UT-LC and UT-Y inks.
> 2. Same as above with UT-M toner curve added
> 3. Mixed my own orange with 30%Y/70%M and used it as a toner in the LM
> position
> 4. 50/50 mix between 1. and 3.
> 5. 50/50 mix between 2. and 3.
>
> It's very easy to make your own toner. It took me 20 minutes from 
> mixing
> the inks to having a finished linearized curve for the toner.
>
> --
> Daniel Staver
> http://daniel.staver.no

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