Digital BW, The Print

mitcha@m... wrote:
> 2. The Epson Driver for the K3 printers in Advanced B&W mode puts  
> down a light-gray rectangle going out to the full paper size (A4 in  
> this case), which was very visible in the the print  the dealer made  
> because the sheet of paper I used had been cut from a roll and was a  
> little larger than A4 size, so that the light gray "border" around  
> the image (which was a little less than A4 size) showed clearly  
> against the white of the paper. 

Thanks Mitch for you time and observations...you too Clayton.

I just wanted to confirm what Clayton mentioned about the "light-gray rectangle" on the 
print you observed. It is from a setting in ABW driver called "Highlight Point Shift" when 
checked lays down a very, very light tone to cover bare paper. This is to stop gloss 
differential, but as you saw it covers the whole printable area and that is so strange. 

I tried it once on Luster, which does very well with gloss differential and noticed the "light-
gray rectangle" around the image. I really couldn't tell any difference from the highlights 
when compard to a print without "Hightlight Point Shift"...but really didn't spend too much 
time critiquing the print as the gray rectangle area turned me off to "Highlight Point Shift" 
real quick!

Clayton hit on all the other points.