2003-10-31 by James Sims
If you check out Epson s web site and compare the specifications and benefits pages on the 4000 and the 7600, you will see some subtle distinctions in how they
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2003-10-31 by Paul Roark
Ingo, ... I concur with Daniel Staver. The Epson Matte Black measures slightly darker with the densitometer but is noticeably warmer. I think because of the
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2003-10-31 by Mark Hahn
I would return the printer. You shouldn t see any banding at 1440. mark ... resolution issues will ... 1440X720 GIMP/ ... 1440x720 sometimes ... and its worse
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2003-10-31 by Mark Hahn
Take a look at this site: http://www.kcbx.net/~mhd/2photo/outneg/outneg0.htm Judging from all this author s other work I would expect that these
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2003-10-31 by Kees Brandenburg
Thanks Paul, I am using quadtone rip with my own ink separations (folowing Roy s QTR procedure) so I will give these three greys a try. One other thing I
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2003-10-31 by Paul Roark
Kees, ... Yes, the dark and light grays are the same between the hextone and quadtone versions of the inksets. (Of course, the inks in the UT inkset are
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2003-10-31 by ron
Excuse me for the dumb question but -What is QTR ? Thanks, Ron Nelson
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2003-10-31 by Steve Kale
FYI - http://www.nikon-image.com/eng/Film_Scanners/ls9000ed.htm
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2003-10-31 by twelch2113@aol.com
Daniel, I have been using the septone inks and plug-in but have not been completely satisfied with the D-max and depth of the tonal range. Rather flat compared
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2003-10-31 by Daniel Staver
... I compared the Epson Matte black and the Eboni once, and the Epson ink had slightly better dmax. The difference was small, I doubt you would see it if you
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2003-10-31 by patchy6513
Thank you again for all your helps! After reading the whole service manual I controlled all the mechanical parts and they looked absolutely fine. By this
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2003-10-31 by Roger Sopher
... Thats what I thought, but was afraid I had missed something. I have pounded on the plug-in but there is a bug in it that doesn t allow access via the ppd
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2003-10-31 by Ernst Dinkla
... From: Roger L Sopher To: Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:34 PM Subject: RE:
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2003-10-31 by Roger L Sopher
Hi Ernst, Could you elaborate on Gimp-Print 4.3.21 and QTR? Does this in fact allow printing via a QTR driver from The Gimp? Roger Roger L Sopher
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2003-10-31 by John Swain
My experience was exactly the opposite. if I don t flatten the image before printing I get posterisation. It took me a while and many prints to work out that
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2003-10-31 by Ernst Dinkla
... From: john eckenrode To: Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: RE:
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2003-10-31 by Ernst Dinkla
... From: john eckenrode To: Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: Re:
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2003-10-31 by Peter Wiklund
What paper/film shall I use for printing negatives (with an Epson 870)? I will use the negatives for contact-printing. No, I havent yet got Dan Burkholder s
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2003-10-31 by Daniel Staver
... It s also possible to run the Ultratones using the standard Epson driver and my modified 1290 curves. I usually print this way, although I have a working
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2003-10-31 by john eckenrode
Reinier you mentioned that you where using GIMP-PRINT 4.3.18 aka the unstable release. did you actually use it with QTR and was it compatible? and did you
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2003-10-31 by john eckenrode
Hi Roy Any idea when this update might be posted? not trying to be pushy i guess i m just excited. now that ultatone carts for the 2200 are available it opens
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2003-10-31 by john eckenrode
it does, i m not exactly sure what james is referring to. the 4000 does come in a pro proofing model which prints only cmyk to simulate a press run so maybe
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2003-10-31 by Kees Brandenburg
Paul, The MIS VM and UT quad sets have two greys: dark (C position) and light(M position). The hex inksets three: dark (C position), medium (LC position),
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2003-10-31 by Paul D. DeRocco
... But I thought it used the same ink. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
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2003-10-31 by Roy Harrington
The beta8 version is the older version that matches the old profiles. A new release coordinated with the corresponding new profiles needs to done. Roy
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2003-10-31 by Paul Roark
Mike, In the hextone MIS VM and UT inksets, the light gray is in the yellow position, and the medium gray is in the light/photo cyan position. (Toners are in
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2003-10-31 by markroth61
That s what I call mine... pigment prints on rag , that s what they are. Photographs printed w/pigment ink on ....fill in the blank...I d kind of like to take
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2003-10-31 by Mike Botelho
Clayton, Didn t mean to rehash something that s been discussed to death . I m new to all of this, including this forum, and was responding to something that
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2003-10-31 by James Sims
Mike, Epson does not seem to recommend the 4000 as a photographer solution. There has been some considerable discussion just recently regarding the 4000
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2003-10-31 by sandersm@aol.com
Carl Schofield wrote: Now that the dot size weighting has been adjusted for the 2200 I find that 1440x720 HQ gives equally smooth prints at higher
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2003-10-31 by sandersm@aol.com
Some wise person wrote: That was my original thought some months ago. But, the inksets that Paul is working toward are certainly different enough from other
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2003-10-31 by John Vitollo
... Hey Steve, it s now shipping! Got mine today! Don t know about Windows but on the Mac it s faster than Photoshop 7. Mac has no activation this time around
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2003-10-31 by Kelin7
For the MIS Variable Tone Hex set, I cannot determine for sure, by eyeballing my purge patterns, whether the Medium Grey ink is in the yellow or light cyan
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2003-10-31 by Steven Karafyllakis
... layered ... arguments ... in ... doing ... Garry; Sorry, you re right we are of on a tangent; My take is that there is no advantage to the final print; the
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2003-10-31 by markroth61
I find this topic fascinating, considering the debates in the 1800 s...how interesting if the internet was available to painters in 1839:
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2003-10-31 by Clayton Jones
... This has already been discussed to death in this and other forums over the past two years. I remember in a thread somewhere, maybe here, a consensus that
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2003-10-31 by Carl Schofield
I ve switched twice so far without any major problems. I did have some bad nozzle checks the first time that I think were caused by air in the carts, but a
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2003-10-31 by Jeff Borkowski
does anyone have a top-rate drum scan vendor they like to use who is scanning 16bit and can scan negatives up to 7x17in? also, does anyone have experience with
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2003-10-31 by Carl Schofield
John, The dot size weighting adjustment for the 2200 required a patch and I don t know if this patch has been applied to the QTR version currently on Roy s
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2003-10-31 by Paul D. DeRocco
... Until you get PSCS, which has 16-bit adjustment layers, you re probably better off _not_ using adjustment layers, and staying in 16-bit mode. That way, the
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2003-10-31 by Garry Sarre
... least ... on ... a ... Steve I don t think I was very clear as the responses have gone off on a tangent. I DO definately get degradation with 8 bit
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2003-10-31 by John Merrill
Are there problems switching back and forth between MIS Ultratones and Epson OEMs on the 2200? Sorry if this has been asked before... John Merrill
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2003-10-31 by john eckenrode
Carl Thanks, I actually ordered the UT grey carts a couple days ago, my thinking is to use those in conjunction with Epson black and the UC colors for any
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2003-10-31 by Steven Karafyllakis
Steve; Not what I meant, exactly. I send layered files (6-8 deep sometimes) to the printer too. It handles them by flattening or applying them in some way,
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2003-10-31 by Ken Carney
I m curious. Not exactly relevant to your message, but has anyone in the group ever had a buyer inquire as to the medium? I never have, nor have I found
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2003-10-31 by Carl Schofield
John, I made some QTR profiles for printing at high resolution (2880x1440) with the 2200 using the MIS Ultratones. Ink limits had to be cut way back to avoid
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2003-10-31 by Mike Botelho
I think the problem is that, ever since the first Iris print, people have been searching for a term that would add an air of validity to a new process.
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2003-10-31 by ejohn182002
does anyone out there familiar with GIMP-PRINT know when the resolution issues will be corrected? when printing to a 2200 with a resolution higher than
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2003-10-30 by Reinier van der Ryst
... Why not go the whole way with the hextone printers - using the UT inks. Keep the three colours seperate, but add a little gray to them so that it makes up
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2003-10-30 by J Vee
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