Digital BW, The Print

Mark,

Are you using the MIS Ultratone inks or the Epson OEM Ultrachrome inks?

Carl
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 12:43  PM, markjamesfisher wrote:

> I am not sure exactly what you mean.  I did set up a custom dot gain
> curve to try to match a printed step wedge with the monitor.  I also
> tried to tweak it using real photos.  I am also using the gray
> balancer.
>
> Mark
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hargens"
> <chargens@s...> wrote:
>> Are you using curves to print with this inkset?
>>
>> Chris Hargens
>>
>> --- In
>> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "markjamesfisher"
>> <markjamesfisher@y...> wrote:
>>> Sounds encouraging.  At least I know it is possible!
> Unfortunately,
>> I
>>> am on a PC so the QTR stuff won't help me much.  For reference,
> my
>>> settings are Profile: Custom Dot gain, intent: relative
>> colormetric,
>>> paper: enhanced matte, gamma 1.8 (could this be it?), mode:
>>> photorealistic--- In
> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
>>> Carl Schofield <scho@m...> wrote:
>>>> Mark,
>>>>
>>>> What method are you using to print with the UT inks in the
> 2200?
>>> I'm
>>>> using QTR with the UT inks in my 2200 and don't have a problem
>> with
>>>> blocked shadows.  Here are some density measurements for the UT
>>> inks in
>>>> that range on EEM:
>>>> 95% - 1.49
>>>> 96% - 1.52
>>>> 97% - 1.55
>>>> 98% - 1.60
>>>> 99% - 1.64
>>>> 100% - 1.69
>>>>
>>>> There are some QTR profiles for the UT inks in the 2200
> Ultratone
>>>> Profiles.sit file, in the QuadToneRIP 2.0 folder on my
>> filesharing
>>> site
>>>> if you want to try them:
>>>> http://homepage.mac.com/scho/FileSharing2.html
>>>>
>>>> Carl
>>>> On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 09:49  AM, markjamesfisher
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying (desparately) to get decent separation in the 95%
>>> range of
>>>>> blacks.  I've tweaked my custom dot gain without much to show
>> for
>>>>> it.  The shadows seem to block up on the print at 95-97% on
> up
>> no
>>>>> matter what I do.  Is there another way to deal with this?  Is
>>>>> another inkset the only answer?  Or do I simply need to
> accept
>>> this
>>>>> and move on?  Or do I worry too much (:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks -- Mark
>>>>>
>
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