Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" <dfaprinting@...> wrote:
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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.
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Greg,

At least with the i1 in strip mode, the random option bombed.  XRite targets always have a solid black patch as an initial reference, and sometimes the next patch is black or near black.  Since there are no gaps, there can be insufficient contrast, which results in a read error.  With the edited XML file, I am now producing unscrambled 8.5 x 8.5 mm patches, using 0.50mm gaps.  They are reasonably compact and seem to read fine.  I'm pretty happy with that.

Regards,

Lou