Digital BW, The Print

I'm guessing that since the Piezo driver prints off of a grid pattern and the Epson driver uses a stochastic
pattern, the Piezo grid is reacting with the the bricks on the smokestack and causing the moiré.

Harvey  Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC


Todd Flashner wrote:

>
> While we are on the subject of Bernds driver comparison, I saw something in
> there that I had never seen before. Look at the two smaller prints that were
> both printed with the Piezo driver. The large smoke stack on the left has a
> moiré  pattern in it's lower third. It's not there in the Epson driver
> print, but that is a larger print, so I wouldn't expect them to be the same.
> But what could be the cause of that moiré ?
>
> Todd
>
>
> >> 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´t see dots - maybe you have a bad sample of the 1160, mine
> > doesn´t print dots, under a 7x magnification you see a structure, but its
> > not dots.
> >
> > Greetings Bernhard
>





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