Digital BW, The Print

John

Thanks for the recommendations.  I may have solved the problem.  I 
was trying to print out 4x5 size pieces of Pictorico versus 8 X 10 
sizes,  The inks were not drying fast enough and thus the rollers 
were rubbing the ink off.  

Bruce

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> Sounds like your ink isn't drying quickly enough. I didn't have 
any trouble with 
> that film and the 2200, even with matte black, but I have heard of 
others who 
> have. You may try  a Photo black if you are using Matte black. 
Secondly, 
> experiment with your media settings in the Epson driver. LIke, try 
the glossy 
> film setting or premium glossy setting to try to lay down less 
ink. Finally one of 
> my students had this exact same problem and I told him to back off 
on the 
> density of his file in Photoshop by making the deepest backs less 
dense in a 
> curves adj layer. In other words, if your deepest backs are set on 
say 5, try 
> placing that value on 10 or 15. That reduction of shadow density 
in the file did 
> the job for him, He was using the 2200 with PK and printing out of 
rgb color 
> space. With greyscale output I would assume a similar backing off 
the blacks 
> could also help.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "brucercohio" 
<
> bruce.campbell@w...> wrote:
> > All
> > 
> > Help please
> > 
> > I am having problems when trying to make digital negatives on an 
Epson 
> > 2200 printer.  I am using the Pictorico 2200 film.  The little 
rollers 
> > and pizza wheels on the Epson 2200 printer rub the ink right off 
the 
> > negative.  What printer and paper settings should I be using? Is 
there 
> > a way to specify the ink density?
> > 
> > Is there away to remove the printer rollers?
> > 
> > Bruce