Digital BW, The Print

For those following the desnsity decrease problem I was having, I 
thought I would update everyone and let them know that Ink Jet 
Mall/Cone Editions has discovered where the problem is.

It seems that when the newest release of the Piezo driver was 
released, the driver included not only new profiles for additional 
papers, but revised profiles for the existing papers. These new 
profiles are printer and paper specific and produced on very accurate 
and sophisticated equipment.

The new profiles tend to open up shadow detail which was interpreted 
as a decrease in density on my part. The cofusing part was that we 
were told that the old profiles were the same. Confusing to say the 
leaset.

So in summary, although my printer needed and benefited from a good 
servicing and replacement of the heads and dampers, the density 
decrease appears to be due to the Piezo software upgrade and not the 
sludge buildup. In reality, it was not a density decrease, but an 
updated more accurate paper profile.

Good printing to all and Happy Thanksgiving.

Mike

Michael J. Kravit, AIA
Architect/Photographer