Digital BW, The Print

on 11/17/01 6:37 PM, Todd Flashner wrote:

> I think what I am speaking to is printer inconsistencies that occur without
> regard to what ink is in them.


BTW, One test of this is if Piezo users can print Tyler's Zee's with perfect
separation, time and again, without banding of any kind. Tyler's Zee's is a
target that represents all 100 grayscale tones, and any workflow/printer
that can reproduce it cleanly and distinctly (and without color crossover)
is a good system in my book.

I am of the mind that if the Piezo profiles work sufficiently well enough to
do that on everybody's printer every time, A) there can't be too great a
variance between printers, B) there can't be too great a variance within a
single printers performance over time.

I believe that since Piezo(TM) has a larger installed base than MIS VM,
across a wider spectrum of printers, and with a wider spectrum of paper
specific profiles, it is the best mechanism by which to test printer
variance at large.

DSS, and Greenies is another story, but even while monitoring for onset of
either of those conditions, I recommend printing Tyler's Zee's over nozzle
checks or any other target that I know.

Todd