Digital BW, The Print

What, exactly, are you supposed to see in Tyer's Zz's print? (if it is
printed correctly)?
 On the monitor It looks like a single tone.

Jerry




Todd Flashner wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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