Digital BW, The Print

Ernst, Roy,

>>The dot patterns for the
>> 3800 at 5% show very strange dot doublets.   I wonder why that is?
> 
>Smoother prints but no extra detail. At the Photokina I
>already got the impression that Epson went for a more analogue
>photo like print and I couldn't see more detail. Using more
>small droplets along the range allows that. But if they are
>distributed like just doubling dots it doesn't deliver more 
>resolution.

Re the double dots, my old 870 printed double dots in BO mode like
that.  Back to the 3800 PK scan, I looked at the dot pairs again and
at about the 10% level they begin growing into groups of 3 and 4 dots,
then 5, and it becomes a random grouping of clusters of 2 to 5 dots
each.  A bit further and the squigglies begin to emerge from these
clusters - or I guess the clusters continue to get longer and begin
curving.  It's all very organic looking.


Regards,
Clayton


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