Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Louis Dina" <lou@...> wrote:
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> Excellent suggestion.  I found the Eye One Patch layout XML file in the colorport folder and edited it to allow me to make smaller patches and cram more of them onto a sheet.  I will pay attention to minimum patch sizes, especially if I get read errors.  Some of Bill Atkinson's Eye One charts are so small, (6 mm), that I do get many read errors, so your point is valid in my experience.  
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> I kept a copy of the original XML file as a backup, just in case.  
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> Thanks, that was a great suggestions and a big help.  
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> Lou
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You may try the random option too, but it never really helped me much. Pretty sure that 8mm is the minimum size for the i1 to read and at that size it will be slow going. I found that the little bit of savings in paper made a huge impact in my measuring time, so I tried to opt for larger patches to speed things up. There is a huge amount that can be saved if you were using a Pulse, from 12mm long down to about 8mm long, any smaller and it gets too time consuming to position the guide quickly for the scan. I think I wen with 5mm once and like 1mm spacing between rows which still cut it in half.