Digital BW, The Print

Duane, thank you, that did help clarify it's use quite a bit. Have you (or anyone else who 
might be reading this) experienced any ink issues of this sort with HPR?

Thanks again....
Sarah


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dlruckus" <dlruckus@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Sarah.
>  I don't have a 2200 but since you have had no responses I'll give you
> my version, for whatever it's worth. You would use the Ink limit just
> as you would in calibrating and linearizing QTR. That means that you
> want it set to where the D'max peaks and stops climbing higher or only
> does so slowly with large increases in limit. Put crudely, you want as
> much ink laydown as you can get without it being overdone.
>  By overdone, I mean to the point where it begins to flood your paper
> and remain on the surface. If there is too much ink for the coating to
> handle, it can actually reduce the D'max of the print. Some papers are
> very prone to this. You can test for this by measuring the density of
> the 100% test patch to see if it is less than the 95% patch. If it is
> really bad you can see it visually by carefull inspection of the
> stepscale in good light. Another crude, but I think accurate,
> description of what flooding will resemble is to print on glossy paper
> with a matt K ink. The dark parts that are Not glossy after printing
> are flooded.
>  If you are using the Epson driver and not QTR and are using the
> proper paper selection and epson papers and inks you should not see
> any problem with ink limits. You normaly would only need to worry
> about this if you were using 3rd party papers and/or inks. If using
> the Epson driver you would only be able to indirectly control the K
> ink limit by trying different paper selections in the setup to see
> which one worked best.
>  Hope this is of some use to you.
> 
> Regards.
> Duane
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sagaface"
> <sagaface@> wrote:
> >
> > I use a 2200, printing with either K2/Eboni with BO and QTR. I've
> read a few
> > threads where people mention using the ink limit adjustment with
> certain papers...how do 
> > you know which papers benefit and by how much to pull back? I use
> mostly EEM/HPR.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Sarah
> >
>