Digital BW, The Print

There's a couple of different dither algorithms but pretty much always use Ordered.
I've looked at the innards of this dither enough to doubt that the dither is causing
the microbanding but it hard to tell for sure.  I'm a bit more suspicious of the weaving
but that would only be an issue with the desktop printers -- the pro printers do this
in the printer.  The other thing that may be more inherent is using fewer inks.
Color prints have so many more variations of which dot is where that jet variations
are more likely covered up.  

I must have missed Joe's post so I'm not sure about his comments.

Roy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Moody" <moodymz3@y...> 
wrote:
>
> Joe Wisniewski posted a very interesting message on the QTR group.  Thanks
> Joe!
> 
> "The gimp print drivers will exhibit microbanding whenever the total ink
> density exceeds 100%.
> <snip>
> gimp print always interleaves ink, nothing ever really overlaps, and you
> cannot exceed 100% coverage."
> 
> That seems to be really, really, useful information for people building
> curves, as that is very different than other rips I have used.
> Is this known behavior in the drivers as implemented in QTR and/or IJC?
> Sorry if I'm a little late to the game if this has been discussed before; I
> don't find anything by searching the last 6000 messages.
> 
> I have not had time to explore this yet, but it could explain what I
> believed to be a dither problem in a QTR curve I was working on.  I have
> been recently testing IJC in an attempt to eliminate the "dither" problem.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> John Moody
>