Digital BW, The Print

Ernst,

Would you sell your Epson 9000 just because of sharpness
difference? I compared the tests on: 

 http://harrington.com/dotscans/dotsdots.html 

and I couldn't se the difference between Epson 7500/9000 and
Epson 7600.

This week I am going  to pick up a very little used Epson 9000.
It shall cost me 7500 swedish kronas ( $1000 ),  including my
petrol costs. I want to use it for quadtone printing. I am worrying
now, am I doing something wrong?

Regards,
Kemal

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Ernst Dinkla wrote:

>Greg,
>
>I have to disappoint you, all my QTR setups are "dry" ones till I 
>can use 9000/9500 curves to drive the UT VM 9000 that I have. 
>Today I actually linearised the custom Wasatch SoftRip / 9000 UT 
>VM combination again so I can continue B&W printing  that way.
>
>The friend who got it running today is very satisfied with the 
>9600 QTR driver. Finer detail than with his 9000 UT VM and Paul's 
>curves. Qimage preprocessing too. He will compare the 9600 
>results with the 9000 driven by QTR later on but my guess is that 
>the 9000 will be sold. Will ask about any banding. His fee is on 
>its way to Roy.
>
>Ernst
>