Digital BW, The Print

Nick,
I did not know the 1800 had both inks installed; good to know.  It sounds
like you found a good reason for using both on matte paper.
What Dmax are you getting on glossy?

Best regards,
John Moody

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Nick H.
Nugent
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:22 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] QTR/R1800 matte vs glossy dottiness (Question for Roy)

Hello Roy,

After making a series of beautiful glossy prints I proceeded to create
profiles for matte papers and got quite puzzled by the apparent
dottiness in the black only profile, a little less with toned
profiles. Does QTR do anything differently for the matte nozzles, or
is this how the Epson printhead for the R1800 is programmed to work?

For now my workaround is to use the PK ink as the light gray with
density/ink-limit at 12/30 and I'm able to create very smooth
profiles, actually even smoother than my glossy ones, even smoother
than the toned glossy profiles.

Now I believe I can print a very wide range of media on the R1800 but
still I wonder why there is such a difference. Also on a previous
posting I mentioned some sort of banding around .6 inch within the top
margin which I managed to avoid by printing with top-placement=0.6.
But none of these issues are show stoppers. Overall the b/w prints
produced by this printer with QTR are absolutely beautiful.

Thanks,
--nick




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