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Re: [Digital BW] Inks, Epson vs. Cone etc. was:(more newbie q's)

2001-12-15 by Julian Thomas

All I can tell you is what I see - I have 2 1160s and the results are the
same. FS is better with the Cone driver, although I believe that VM with the
Epson is the same as FS with Cone driver - if oyu use 6 inkprinters.

Julian

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernie Ess" <albatros.bee@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Inks, Epson vs. Cone etc. was:(more newbie q's)


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Thomas" <julianthomas@...>
>
>
> > I'm afraid I disagree totally. I've tried FS with the Epson and W.
> workflow
> > and it is lacking in smoothness and has dots. The Cone driver makes the
> > print head 'fill in' the gaps in the dots and effectively doubles the
res
> of
> > the printer.
>
> Sorry but this is simply wrong - I have print samples of Cone with Piezo,
> MIS FS with Piezo (from Bernd) and I have my own Epson with FS - with the
> right curve - I adjusted the Woolf curve - and the Epson, while being much
> slower  - prints with exactly the same smoothness if not finer, tones are
> equal. I don\ufffdt see dots - maybe you have a bad sample of the 1160, mine
> doesn\ufffdt print dots, under a 7x magnification you see a structure, but its
> not dots.
>
> Greetings Bernhard
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