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Re: [Digital BW] is 2200 Black-Only sharper than 2400 ?

2005-11-08 by Roy Harrington

Right.  Most of the curves were created with 1440 in mind.  On the 2200 you
can try them at 2880 by reducing the ink limit adj when printing.  I think about
-45% is very close to get the same overall ink usage.

Roy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Moody" 
<moodymz3@y...> wrote:
>
> 2880 on the 2200 printer uses only the small dots; variable drop size is
> cancelled.  True, the supplied curves have been made in 1440 mode and work
> best in that mode.  2880 mode tends to use more ink, and most people don't
> find any useful improvement so they don't use it.  It does allow finer
> detail however, so I thought it would be a simple enough test to see if any
> difference was found.
> 
> Best regards,
> John Moody
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Brian
> Ellis
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:32 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] is 2200 Black-Only sharper than 2400 ?
> 
> >If so, have you
> >tried 2880 with QTR?
> 
> I was under the impression from things read here from Roy and others that
> QTR is set up for 1440 and it isn't a good idea to use it at 2880.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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