Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Louis Dina" <lou@...> wrote:
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> Greg,
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> 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.
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> Regards,
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> Lou
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I prefer the unscrambled patches whenever possible because it give you an idea of what is possible to hit and where there might be problems. That said there are reasons to use the scrambled patches... Once upon a time it was said that the printers could have issues printing the same series of colors (probably do to ink flow issues) so that the profile would not be as good if the patches were all in sequence. Not sure this applies with the more modern printers.