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Re: PIEZOGRAPHY bw icc GRAYSCALE

2004-03-02 by Tyler Boley

Depending on printer model, the inksets are different for the plugin
vrs the icc profiles. If the plugin is working for you, but not the
profiles, having the correct inkset would be the first thing to look at.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "cschaible94111"
<cschaible@c...> wrote:
> Johnny:
> 
> I'm having the same experience, more or less, although I don't print 
> grayscale wedges very often.  In "actual" photographic images, the 
> problem is apparent as posterization in the midtones; that is, say, 
> skin tones or clouds that should be distinct, with considerable 
> detail, print as a single tone without that detail.  (I'm using the 
> selenium ink on a 1280 with PhotoRag.)  I've given up on the ICC 
> system as a result, and gone back to the plugin.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Eades" 
> <jeades1@s...> wrote:
> > I print a 21 step grayscale according to the instructions with 
> > PiezoBW ICC manual and the middle section is the same shade from 
> 40% 
> > to 60%. No matter how I adjust it, the same results happen. This is 
> > being printed from the Piezotone warm neutral cartridges with 
> Museum 
> > Black. Has anyone else had this same problem. I just finished 
> > printing an image from the Library of Congress thinking it may be 
> > something wrong with my images; and I get the same result.So it 
> isn't 
> > just a grayscale that printw too light in the midsection, it's 
> > anything I print.
> > 
> > 
> > Your frustrated friend in photography,
> > 
> > Johnny Eades

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