Digital BW, The Print

I have recently down loaded the trial version of the color burst rip and
similar problems with banding on grayscale images on the 2200. The grayscale
images printed on the 9600 were some of the best I have ever seen. Color on
both machines exhibited banding in the shadows until I set the printer to
its highest rez ( 8 passes ) it then went away and looked very good. I
couldn't get rid of the banding for gray scale on the 2200 but I am very
impressed with the performance of the 9600.

Steve Smith


> Sanders,
> 
> why not download the free demo from
> 
> http://www.colorburstrip.com/
> 
> and give it a test drive.
> 
> I really haven't tested enough to make final pronouncements but my initial
> finds are 
> as follows:
> 
> - the grayscale support means better cmyk profiles for neutral prints from
> grayscale 
> files. I prefer partitioned workflows (where inks are assigned start/stop
> positions 
> along the gray scale)  , but could live with 6- or 7-channel  multichannel
> files if that's 
> what it took.  This isn't how CBurst works, and I haven't looked further to
> see how a 
> custom grayscale profile could be made.
> 
> - I printed a gray scale on a 2200 using the profiles that ship with the
> current release, 
> and while the gray hue was fine, there was unacceptable banding (some kind of
> herringbone, not the kind that indicates bad nozzles). Yet, the printer had
> good clean 
> nozzle checks, the heads were recently aligned and the problem did not recurr
> when I 
> printed either through the Epson driver or OPM.
> That to me was a deal-breaker. i didn't pursue tests any further but I hope
> others try 
> the demo so we can compare notes.
> 
> - I also briefly checked color printing and found shadows not open enough and
> a 
> funny dither (looking like fine vertical lines) that I wasn't crazy about. But
> I know this 
> part is completely subjective and a new profile could deal with shadow detail
> better.
> 
> -Installing it on a G3 iBook (640 MB RAM) it was way slow for postscript. But
> then, the 
> min requirements call for a G4. As an RGB or grayscale printer, speeds were
> decent 
> for a G3/ jaguar.
> 
> It would be nice to see  a grayscale-capable, full scale RIP (like
> StudioPrint) for OS X.
> I wonder what others may have to say about this release (2.2) of Colorburst.
> 
> 
> 
> Antonis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, sandersm@a... wrote:
>> > I went back through the archives to see if anyone besides Robbe was using
>> the 
>> > Colorbust RIP and couldn't find any references to it.   Does anyone on the
>> > list have any experience with it?   Any thoughts, observations?   I notice
>> that 
>> > its most recent revision for Macs, v2.2, came with release notes that cited
>> > improved grayscale printing as a feature of the revision.
>> > 
>> > Sanders McNew
>> > www.mcnew.net
>> > 
>> > 
>> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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