Digital BW, The Print

Julian, Bernhard,

Just want to toss in that there is a great deal of printer-to-printer 
variation and you may both be right based on what you each have seen.

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Julian Thomas" 
<julianthomas@t...> wrote:
> 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@w...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...>
> 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@t...>
> >
> >
> > > 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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