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Re: [Digital BW] QTR - grayscale ramp scrambled w/Ultratone curves

2003-11-14 by David Wroblewski

Whoops, I should have specified that I was on Linux. Sorry about
that. Roger sent me the toner-curve.raw that has the IBM bit
order and that solved the problem.

Thanks,
david

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield 
<scho@m...> wrote:
> David,
> 
> If you are using a Mac, I don't think the toner curve would be 
that far  
> off to require any adjustment.  Do you get a similar effect with 
the  
> sepia curve (orange)?  Are you sure all of the gray inks are 
firing  
> (nozzle checks OK)?
> 
> Carl
> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 08:27  AM, David Wroblewski wrote:
> 
> > I've installed the UltraTone carts in my 2200 yesterday,
> > and after letting it sit for ~ 5 hours and doing about
> > 10 cleaning cycles, I started getting good nozzle checks.
> >
> > I've installed Carl's 2200 UT curves after commenting
> > out the linearization data.
> >
> > Now, when I print 21Step.tif, using any of the profiles
> > that mention toner-curve.raw, the output alternates between
> > gray steps and varying levels of blue toner rather than being
> > a smooth ramp. (When I print using the warm curve, which
> > does not use toner-curve.raw, the output is fine.)
> >
> > Is this the result of the Mac/IBM bit-order problem in
> > toner-curve.raw mentioned in other posts? If so, how do I
> > correct that file? The instructions I found were a little
> > cryptic, and had to do with opening the gray16 file, not
> > the toner-curve.raw file. That confuses me. What program are
> > you using to do this correction?
> >
> > And once corrected, do I need to reprocess the .txt files
> > and reinstall the curves?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> >
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