Digital BW, The Print

I never noticed the dots before you mentioned it, but you are right, 
if you look really really close you can see them... though it doesn't 
look bad enough to worry about... kind of like worrying that you can 
still see a bit of grain when you print Technical Pan film...

mark 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker 
<tbaker1328@s...> wrote:
> While this may make a difference on small prints, but when viewing 
larger prints viewed at a normal viewing distance one won't see the 
dots.  So, does it really matter what the individual dots look like 
if the prints look good under normal conditions?  I don't think one 
notices these dots even on even an 8x10 without really looking.   
>  
> Anyway, the way things are going, we won't even have this issue in 
12-18 months on the newest equipment, with the decreasing dot size, 
etc.
>  
> Tom Baker
> 
> Tom Salyer <tom@t...> wrote:
> After over three years printing Piezography on an Epson 1160, I 
just 
> started working with Image Print and an Epson 2200 with my G4 Mac 
and 
> OS 10.2.
> 
> As I have always printed Jon Cone's " Proof of Peizography "  grey 
> scale file to see how a paper and ink combination works, I printed 
the 
> file with the 2200 and IP for comparison on Archival Matte.
> 
> With the naked eye I see dots in the highlights along the 1 percent 
to 
> 5 percent bar, and even into the 10 or 15  percent bar on top. They 
are 
> subtle, I have to stick my nose into the print to see them, but 
there 
> are there. When I compare the same file printed on AM and Piezo, 
the 
> bars a completely dot less and smooth as a baby's bottom.
> 
> Are the highlight dots of ink normal on Image Print ? Am I doing 
> something wrong ? Am I fair comparing it to Piezo ?
> 
> Reprinting my old Peizo files with Image Print, I feel my results 
are 
> just as good, except the faint dots in the highlights.
> 
> BTW, the same test file gives me good separation from 90 to 96 
percent 
> black, and I can just make out the 98 percent ring from the 100.
> 
> Working with Photo Matte Black ink, Color Mgmt > bitmap > Grey 
Gamma 
> 1.8 and profile ep2200mk_b_grey-archmatt2880 .
> 
> Thanks for the help !
> 
> 
> Tom Salyer
> Miami
> www.tomsalyer.com
> 
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