Digital BW, The Print

Thanks again for the comments.

In reply to the question, I am using Windows XP, so QTR is out for us.

Our history is that we reproduce fine art (giclee prints for those who
like the term) using our Colorspan Esprit 11 colour printer. Of those 11
colours, there are four shades of black. We offered a service to local
photographers of printing their BW prints, and managed to produce some
absolutely beautiful deep rich BW prints. The problem is that there is
micro-banding that plagues us. Sometimes we had to print the same image
many many times before one came out that was acceptable to us. So now we
had a clientelle with no economical way of printing their work. This is a
business for us, and so another investment is clearly what we have to
make.

We might well consider trying the BO option, and at least d/l the trial
version of Imageprint before purchase. If you just prefer BO because of
the cost, we would probably chose to go for IP, as it is vital that we
please our customers...and quickly. It's not a hobby for us.

We are as cautious as this because we have found this microbanding issue
to be a terrible problem and want to avoid buying another system that will
let us down.

Many thanks for all the input,

Ellie


flyfishingusa2002 said:
> Ellie,
> You might like to spend some time and research your requiments in the
> forum archieves, there are many posts describing the pros and cons of
> the various solutions. The other factor to consider is that inks and
> rips are continually changing, much due to the efforts of people that
> regually post to the forum.
> You have not said what OS you are using. If it should be OS X then
> you might care to try QTR it's almost free and exremely effective.
> Start off with the 7600 and try black only approach. It's very simple
> and very, very effectve. If you email me your address I'll send you a
> print for the cost of the postage if you like. (That goes for anyone
> else that would like to see one) full details of BO printing are
> available on Clayton Jones's web site.
>
> As for the person that could not get decent B/W using Ultachrome
> inks, he should have tried the demo for IP, it's a pig to install,
> but the results are nothing short of spectacular. Once again, I
> prefer BO because of the cost.......
> Take care.


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Ellie Kennard
Innovative Imaging Studio
http://www.iiStudio.com
Contributor to Photoshop Restoration & Retouching (2nd edition) by Katrin
Eismann