Digital BW, The Print

Hi Dave,

> From my understanding after reading the weave document, it certainly looks
> as if the heads need to
> make multiple passes to achieve 1440 and 2880.

Thanks for the info.  When writing my 3000 alignment utility, I conversed
quite a bit with one of the authors of GimpPrint, Robert Krawitz.  He was
quite helpful.  He also speculates, from what I read in the file you
mentioned, that the reason for the multiple passes is drying time...and also
says as I read in the Epson printer command language document:

"The manual
actually makes it fairly clear how to do this [1440] (it requires two passes
with horizontal head movement between passes), and it is presumably
possible to do this with MicroWeave."

...that the head is moved slightly between passes to get the offset between
the two 720 spaced dots...therefore, the resolution is really 1440.

My real objection to the initial statement, was the claim that the 1440 was
somehow nothing but marketing garbage, when IMO, it's clearly not just
marketing garbage, that the printer (Epson 3000) does in fact allow 1440
horizontally.

Regards,

Austin