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Re: Spectratones and Arches Brite White Hot Press

2001-08-12 by Dan Culbertson

I wrote:
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> 7.  In PressReady with the Glossy Paper media setting bleeding occurs at
> 400% ink but none is apparent (yet) at 300% ink.
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Well - with small patches made for density measurement there was no bleeding
at 300% but when I translated that into an image the larger area of ink
covered paper moistened it to an extent that it printed like -- well like
watercolor paper.  Probably won't be able to get any more ink on this paper
with PressReady without bleeding than I can get with the Epson driver.  So
it looks like, even though the D Max can go up to 1.54 with PressReady the
max practical will be about 1.4.  So maybe the Epson driver with an RGB
method will work just as well as a PressReady CMYK method since the ink
limits will have to be about the same.  Arches Brite White Hot press still
looks hopeful but I think a paper with a heavier gelatin coating will be the
winner.

-- Dan Culbertson
so many years, so little time...

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