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[Digital BW] Re: QT Rip and large black areas

2005-09-11 by john dean

The other thing I just remembered is your profile. It must be grey
gamma 2.2 greyscale. If you send an rgb file over there it wouldn't
work right. 



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> I think you need to post an image of the issue you are having.  Are the
> lines perpendicular to the print head or parallel?
> 
> 
> > From: mltphoto <mturlington@h...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:43:11 -0000
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Re: QT Rip and large black areas
> > 
> > -Correction, I just made another print, I lightened my midtones
> > because I felt the QT Rip darkened my print a little, and the bar
> > lines came back even stronger, even after adding noise - Gaussian.
> > The only time I never got the lines is when I boosted the "Ink Limit
> > Adjustment" when printing. This made the QT Rip lay down more blank
> > ink in the shadows, which worked great in my black sky, but over all
> > lower contrast because it added extra black in all shadows. It
> > appears the QT Rip will not print black all the way black, sort of
> > when you try to lift extra detail in your shadows and you get that
> > weird noise, sometimes with lines. So what is next? I am getting
> > desperate

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