Digital BW, The Print

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 06:36:20PM -0000, pr_roark wrote:

> > On my way to work this morning it occurred to me that 
> > trying QuadTone RIP on my Mac instead of the Epson driver 
> > might help isolate the problem
> > to the printer or the driver. Any thoughts on that?
> 
> I'm not sure what else QTR would show.  I don't have QTR profiles for
> the UT14 inkset, but some people on the QTR forum might.

Oh, right. Without them it wouldn't be very useful.

> I'll be curious if the PC prints look different when you get a chance
> to try that.

Me too.

> > Hm, I just reviewed the PDF and didn't see a description of a purge
> > pattern or how the inks should appear.
> 
> You'd just have to go by the relative densities to see if the C and M
> are lighter than the K.  If now, that would wipe out your shadows.

Ah, I see.

> But the pooling of ink is a different matter.

Yeah. That's evidence something significant is wrong.

Thanks for the help. I'll let you guys know what happens.

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  | Mike Acar |                                | mike at waspfactory dot org |