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RE: [Digital BW] Re: reduce ink load setting on 2200, too?

2006-12-28 by Terry Ritz

The 2200 has a Color Density adjustment. This will allow you to reduce the
black density on the page, but it will also reduce the density of the color
inks. I used to use this but find I get better color results when I build my
profile by carefully selecting the media to use. For black and white work
QTR of course allows full control over the black density.

Terry.

> Clayton Jones wrote:
>
> >...would you also recommend setting a 2200 to -5%?
> 
> I can't remember if the 2200 has the ability to do this.  If it does,
> then just run some small test prints to see which setting 
> looks best.  
> 
> When I got my 2400 the initial prints, when contrast and density were
> otherwise ok, looked heavily overloaded in the blacks.  By
> experimenting I found that reducing the ink load solved it, and -5%
> was the most I could reduce without the prints beginning to look weak.

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