Digital BW, The Print

Just downloaded the file, no problems printing on 1290 with UT inks 
and a tyler curve.

Not wishing you to teach you to suck eggs but you did have the file 
in sRGB or RGB when you applied the curves didn't you?  When I opened 
your technical.tif file is was grayscale, I then converted it to sRGB 
for tyler's curves and then printed it no problems.  As a test I also 
applied the curve to a grayscale image and printed that out - really 
bad!!

Let me know how you get on

Gareth

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Betea" 
<mbetea@w...> wrote:
> Hi Gareth,
> That was the first thing I looked at initially with the first 
> printer. The images I've tried printing were from a D100, shot with 
> the RAW format and converted to 16bit tif. Histograms would show 
that 
> everything was fine, no gaps, no "comb" spikes. I would post/send 
you 
> a file but I have no webspace at the moment other than the 10mb 
they 
> give you with cable. Here is a smaller zipped file that I can post 
to 
> my space though. 
> http://home.wideopenwest.com/~beteahome/technical.zip
> This is an image I got from another member. It contains a step 
wedge 
> and 4 different images, I believe was made up by Clayton Jones. I 
> haven't been able to get this image to print with good results. 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> matt
> > The big thing that needs to be addressed is the levels throughout 
> the 
> > image making sure there are no big gaps in the histogram.  These 
> come 
> > about by too much manipulation in curves/levels.
> > 
> > I had this problem and went back to scanning the original image 
> back 
> > in again using Vuescan and getting the image to what it should 
look 
> > like before playing with it in PS7.  This made all the 
difference.  
> > If you have BB/ADSL send me a link to a file I can download and I 
> > will see if I can reproduce the errors that you are talking about 
> > using my 1290/UT setup.
> > 
> > Gareth