Digital BW, The Print

Peter, I just wanted to say a few things off list. I don't want to get in any 
battles with Paul. Any RGB epson driver method is going to have dots. Yes it 
is possible to get clean highlights(invisable to the naked eye) highlights. 
With the varible mix inkset of pauls you may very well have mixed results. 
You might be in for a lot of work. The types of images paul and Jerry print 
may very well be different than yours and they can't see them. But hey if you 
can't see them fine then your ready to go. My stuff features very light 
backgrounds 40-0% Even though I was able to get very nice looking prints(and 
sold many of these) the dots were there comming in about 30% Decieded not to 
waste my time with anymore. Now I use the Piezo pro 24 on my 7000 With MIS FS 
inks and all I have to worry about is the the file I'am working on. 
Hey I see your in Seattle! I have 27 7000 prints up for exhibit Opening next 
Fri, At the Photographic Center Northwest on capital Hill. Its alterantive 
photography mostly 16x20''s.
Maybe your pickier than some of the others who say they don't have dots. 
Saying you have to view the image at 14inches is an old excuse used by 3000 
users before piezo came along.
Steven Meyers
http://www.xray-art.com
In a message dated 01/25/2002 2:22:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
wander.lust@... writes:


> Paul and others --
> 
> Some questions and comparisons from a novice:
> 
> I'm just starting to experiement with my new Epson 
> 1160/VM/Mac/Photoshop 5 setup. I've made a few test prints, 
> printed a couple of step wedges and Tyler's Zees, and so far I've 
> found that there are "inkjet dots" (for lack of a better term) 
> apparent in my prints at the higher end of the wedge, while the 
> test (staircase) print sent me by the Piezo folks have none 
> visible.
> 
> Using the neutral-cool (nc4) VM curve, I'm getting visible dots at 
> 20% and above on the 21stepwide8bit.jpg scale and 15% and 
> higher on the 21stepNew.jpg scale. I'm printing on Epson 
> Archival Matte paper, and I've tried turning the high-speed setting 
> off in the Epson printer driver. Also, I've tried setting the gamma 
> to 2.2 instead of 1.8 in the sRGB settings in Photoshop.
> 
> The Piezo sample, in contrast, which is printed on Somerset 
> Enhanced paper, does not have inkjet dots visible in the brighter 
> range. It was printed on an Epson 3000, however. (Also, there is 
> some dottiness in the middle part of the wedge, but I think that 
> looks more like it could be because of absorption problems.)
> 
> So my question is this, ultimately: What can I do differently so 
> that my prints are "dotless" in the brighter areas?
> 
> I've also noticed (on the Tyler's Zees image) that I am getting far, 
> far less tonal separation on paper than I am on screen. (Also a 
> lot of visible dots in the bottom row, especially the bottom right 
> square.)
> 
> I'd appreciate any help.
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 




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