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Re: PIEZOGRAPHY bw icc GRAYSCALE

2004-03-02 by Johnny Eades

I don't use the plugin version of PiezoBW, but I am trying to work 
with the PirzoBW ICC version. I've recapped the conditions in an 
earlier nessage.

Still need help,

Johnny Eades




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" 
<tyler@t...> wrote:
> 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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