Digital BW, The Print

Excellent!  Thank you Denis.  It's rare (at least for me) when things actually are as easy as they look.  I'll give it a try later this week.

I'll re-create my curves once I establish which positions to use.

Thanks again,

Ken


--- On Tue, 10/21/08, the_des_bois <thedesbois@...> wrote:

> From: the_des_bois <thedesbois@...>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: R1800/3MK - Swapping Cartridge Positions
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Received: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 2:22 AM
> Had the same issue in the past. Eboni in K, MK and GL.
> 
> Paul Roark had suggested testing all channels by printing
> the 21-step
> image using a single channel. I realized that MY printer
> had the less
> single channel banding in the Y,M,B and R channels.
> 
> So I moved my blacks to the Y, M and B channels, modifying
> the curves
> using the method you describe, only I used QTR curve tool
> instead of
> Notepad. Result when 3 best channels are used: banding is
> gone gone
> and gone!
> 
> So short answer: Yes and Yes.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Denis
> 
> 
> > 
> 
> > 
> > 1.  Change LIMIT_Y= [blank] to the value for LIMIT_GL,
> and then set
> LIMIT_GL to [blank]
> > 
> > 2.  Change UNUSED_INK_3=Y to CURVE_Y= [and cut/paste
> the values from
> the existing CURVE_GL line, and then change
> CURVE_GL="..." to
> UNUSED_INK_8=GL
> > 
> > Is my reasoning sound...and is the solution this
> simple?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help!
> > 
> > Ken
> 
> 
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