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Re: [Digital BW] QTR2 - Black Images...

2003-08-31 by David M. Dorn

Roger,

At what resolution did you print. Carl Schofield confirmed to me, that 
"1440 x 720Highest Quality" is the max for QT.

Above 1440x720HQ the ink floods the page.

Regards,

David


On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 06:41  AM, Roger L Sopher wrote:

> I put QTR2 on an old Beige Power Mac mainly to use as a comparator to 
> QTR2
> on a Linux box. The installation went as it should and all of the 
> screens
> have the content that they should. The profile and curve loading 
> functions
> seem to work and files appear in the drop box as they should. I 
> printed a
> step wedge that I will measure today but eyeballing it looks pretty 
> good
> except maybe a bit wet on the black end when it came out of the 
> printer.
>
> BUT -- when I tried to print a B&W that had previously printed very 
> well
> with Piezo I get a virtually black output. (printing done from 
> Photoshop
> elements v2).  Looking at it, there are a few, very few, areas on the 
> paper
> where some detail pokes through but not much.
>
> I tried tweaking the gamma setting but that seemed to have no effect 
> at all
> (from 1.0 to 2.0). What should I adjust to cut the amount of ink laid 
> down ?
>
> Thanks


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