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13" roll paper

2003-02-13 by dsmithhfx <dsmithhfx@yahoo.com>

Hi, I was thinking of buying a roll paper holder and rolls of paper on the apparently erroneous assumption that it would be cheaper than pre- cut. Then I did

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RE: [Digital BW] Re: Dots and grain

2003-02-13 by Alessandro Pardi

I d rather say: we re used to grain, whereas dots and noise are new to us and stick in our eyes. I don t think philosophy has much to do with these kind of

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Re: BO vs quad

2003-02-13 by Charles Bandes <byronbulb@yahoo.com>

Heh, of course a really good photo-offset print will almost _never_ be black-only, because lithographers understand the inherent problems with halftoning -

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Re: Dots and grain

2003-02-13 by plnelson2003 <peter@studio-nelson.com>

... Yes of course you could. The grain was definitely not present in the original subject. But no one will confuse a photograph with the SUBJECT; No one will

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Hey Everybody! (was Re:BO vs quad)

2003-02-13 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>

Hello Ernest, Peter and Everyone, ... I agree. This whole thing started off with Peter griping about the current state of the technology and has evolved into

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RE: [Digital BW] BO Matermerism!

2003-02-13 by Seth Rossman

Because: 1. They didn t have to have them make varying droplet sizes. 2. They didn t have to squirt them through a little-bitty hole. Seth =-----Original

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Re: [Digital BW] BO Matermerism!

2003-02-13 by plnelson2003 <peter@studio-nelson.com>

... The black on the 1280 has metamerism? I don t own a 1280 but on my 2200 the (matte) black is apparently the only ink that DOESN T have metamerism. Here s

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Re: [Digital BW] BO Matermerism!

2003-02-13 by Jerry Olson

Yes. Epson Black has terrible metamerism. Get the Enhanced Generations 4 Black from Media street. A beautiful black tone, and practically no metamerism. Jerry

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Re: BO vs quad

2003-02-13 by plnelson2003 <peter@studio-nelson.com>

... less a nonissue regardless. I agree. I can only see them closer than 18 inches. But lots of photographers and other do examine prints closely. Let me

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Re: BO Matermerism!

2003-02-13 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>

Hello Ed, ... It s the Epson ink. Try a cart of MIS FS/VM black. Regards, Clayton Info on black and white digital printing at

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Re: BO vs quad, was When will we get.....

2003-02-13 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>

Hello Diane, ... different black inks and what are your feelings about it--assuming that you are in the camp where it is one possible solution. Follow up to

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Black Only - Not just a dot issue

2003-02-13 by plnelson2003 <peter@studio-nelson.com>

I ve been doing some more experiments with black only and I ve run into another technical issue. (When I get back from my vacation I ll put this on my

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BO Matermerism!

2003-02-13 by Ed Mathews

Well now, this sucks. I just got my 1280. I must sat the quality of the prints are much better than they were with my old 740, and the BO printing is very

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BO printing

2003-02-13 by Jerry Olson

Hi Jimenez, The Enhanced black is the blackest ink available, unless you count Epson s DYE black ink. 75 percent pigment, 25 percent dye. Rated on the

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BO printing...

2003-02-13 by Jerry Olson

Hi! I just made a direct comparison of B0 printing using MIS Generations 4 black. File was RGB. Curve was Paul s neutral. PRINTER DPI was 1440. Paper: Aspen

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Re: Vuescan Tips and such

2003-02-13 by Bob_Michaels <Bob@BobMichaels.org>

While John s tutorial on Vuescan is excellent, please don t think Vuescan is this complicated. It s a simple intuitive program where the defaults work very

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Duotone printing

2003-02-13 by Fred Rothenberg

Hi, I ve been reading the forum messages for some time and have learned a lot. On the other hand, I still have just one printer and the standard color ink set.

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RE: [Digital BW] Re: What's PR Paper?

2003-02-13 by Alessandro Pardi

Mine actually was a guess... ;-) but I was lucky enough to find a post by Jerry Olson (that in turn was quoting someon else s post) with this table that maps

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Re:BO vs quad

2003-02-13 by burdeniii <ebiii@oreally.com>

I can understand how someone with a single printer, say a 2200, might want to look at BlackOnly printing vs. the color-ink mix version, but vs. quads? That s

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Re: [Digital BW] Epson 2200 RIP

2003-02-13 by Peter Palmieri

Sandy-- Did you get instructions for installing and using the RIP for the 2200? I received only the disk without instructions. I did download the instructions

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Re: BO vs quad, was When will we get.....

2003-02-13 by danielstaver <daniel@petraflux.com>

... bought a ... 780. I ... quad set ... on my ... 8 x 10. ... to buy ... been ... solution. ... and 2880 ... black inks ... camp where ... My main problem

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Re: BO vs quad

2003-02-13 by Charles Bandes <byronbulb@yahoo.com>

I dunno, then you would probably have an even more obvious disparity between halftone dots and film grain noise. The halftone dots are not going to go away

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Anyone tested Epson 2200 RIP yet?

2003-02-13 by chipcarterdc <chipcarterdc@hotmail.com>

The current issue of Camera Arts contains an article where the author claims he got results comparable to quadtones when using Epson s new RIP. I ve called

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Re: Pail black images using pigment ink

2003-02-13 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>

Hello Rickard, ... One thing is to check the black areas with the densitometer in Photoshop and make sure they are at RGB 0 (or 100% on the % scale). If they

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WHEN will this stop?

2003-02-13 by wolarsky <wolarsky@ix.netcom.com>

I agree. Enough already. Excessive redundancy. Evan Wolarsky

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Re: BO vs quad

2003-02-13 by Bobbo

... Very interesting indeed. Makes me wonder if one could minimize some of the problems as follows: 1) In Photoshop, create a new layer. 2) Add noise to taste

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Re: What's PR Paper?

2003-02-13 by Diane Fields

... section ... I found the names of other rebranded Hahnemuhle paper in the files, but not Photo Rag. Did I miss something? Diane ... Diane B. Fields

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