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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Dithering

2001-10-05 by Bob Obenland

> This makes perfect sense. I wonder if v6 is actually using the Epson 
> driver in this area on the newer printers with smaller droplets and a 
> modified version for the older printers to take into account the 
> larger droplets?

Don't really know about smaller printers.
But I didn't mean to imply that the new V6
Piezo driver was anything other than unique to Piezo.
To my mind its just better than the original driver.

>What you described about the older driver is what I 
> was saying in terms of one row of nozzles acting in a linear fashion 
> to accomplish what the Epson driver does with multiple rows. Which 
> leads me to think that now if it is progressive, either a form of the 
> Epson driver is being used, or maybe rows of nozzles are now being 
> paired.

They did something with the nozzle firing sequence.
What I'm not sure.
Thats why I "buy" stuff that the wizards "do".  ;-))
 
> With the v6 driver have you lost speed in print time? If so, is it 
> roughly the same speed as the Epson driver or slightly faster?

15 X 19 image on 17 X 22 sheet takes 1 hour and 20 minutes approx.
on my 3000

Thanks
Bob Obenland

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