2003-02-11 by Editor P.O.V. Image Service
... This has to be about as close to consensus as we will get on this list.. Carolyn and I on the same side of an issue.. Next thing you know I ll be agreeing
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2003-02-11 by Editor P.O.V. Image Service
... There isn t an easy answer... As I ve said, the answers are already different for fine-art and general-use prints... There s always the option of
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2003-02-11 by Keith Cooper
Hello Am I missing something here? If I want simple reliable BW printing I hand my film over to a lab and get them to develop and print it. If I want to be
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2003-02-11 by Roy Harrington <roy@harrington.com>
... running ... go ... Hi John, That s correct. Gimp-print together with Cups is a Unix only option. That means Mac OS X, Linux, and any other unix you port
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2003-02-11 by cschaible94111 <cschaible@cooley.com>
Peter: I haven t closely followed this thread, but I gather from the number of posts that you ve hit a nerve. With more than a little trepidation, therefore,
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2003-02-11 by HPA
2200 Epson BO is good for clients who are not demanding gallery quality images. Last week I produced 170 8x10 matte for a restaurant. Mostly they had old
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2003-02-11 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>
Hello Johnny, ... Good show. Sounds like you re well on the way. Good luck on the refills! ... What is the back end setting? Regards, Clayton Info on black
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2003-02-11 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>
Hello Peter, ... I don t know why you keep asking this when I and others have already clearly stated that nobody knows, and anyone with any common sense would
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2003-02-11 by johngeyles <jge@cs.unc.edu>
... Could you tell us a little more about this gimp-print ? It looks like it only works under Unix, or under Mac OSX (which of course IS UNIX). Is there no
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2003-02-11 by jeades947 <jeades1@sc.rr.com>
Duh, how dumb can I get? I checked all the printer settings and found one crucial one that I failed to have changed. I was giving it paper profiles instead of
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2003-02-11 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>
... ROFL!!! Regards, Clayton Info on black and white digital printing at http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
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2003-02-11 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>
Hello John, ... Well said, John. These are important points, and a good reminder that we are (hopefully) artists first. Thanks for bringing this into the
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2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin
... Let me elaborate on that. The Leafscan 45 (and the 35) scan B&W as grayscale. Every other scanner scans B&W as RGB. There are issues with scanning in
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2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin
Hi John, ... You are ABSOLUTELY correct. ... That has been a bone of contention for some as to how I do my workflow. I do NOT sharpen. The scanner I use,
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2003-02-11 by Ed Mathews
... ... Can you provide me with a link to that page so I can attempt to see (with my obviously bad eyes) if your Black Only printing is equal to other
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2003-02-11 by Clayton Jones <cj@cjcom.net>
Hello Peter, ... I agree with you, the dots can be seen without a glass. When I first began trying BO printing I was both relieved by finally being able to
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2003-02-11 by johngeyles <jge@cs.unc.edu>
... and I ... image gets ... or so, ... beyond ... So, it sounds like you send the full-rez image to the printer regardless of what size you re printing at;
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2003-02-11 by Carolyn Frayn
... just don t forget the doggie treat. gearhead s are big on those. Carolyn ps... regarding the light black, do a nozzle check, no need for IP, only makes
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2003-02-11 by Thomas Keesling
... Austin and Jerry, Isn t this improvement that we see at higher resolutions printer dependent? I haven t done the comparisons between the two, but I suspect
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2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin
Bob, ... What is a large Epson , and what do you mean internally ? That would be a property of the driver, not the printer. And, at least for me, 360 would
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2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin
... Hi Bob, Possibly, and possibly not. That could merely be an upper limit to data that it uses. I know the Piezo driver stops at 720, so if you send it
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2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin
Hi Bob, ... I remember someone posting something of the such, but the test patterns I saw didn t prove the claim (if that is the same thing they are talking
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2003-02-11 by Jerry Olson
... Of course. Tape record it. It s there. :) Jer
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2003-02-11 by Tyler Boley <tyler@tylerboley.com>
I don t check in all that often, but it s nice to see the general tone has come up out of the gutter. ... wrote: snip ... And why should you be
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2003-02-11 by sanfo2003 <SandyCornelius@cox.net>
Epson America has the 2200 RIP in stock now and I ordered one. Supposed to be here Thursday. Hopefully I ll be able to make a post this weekend concerning
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2003-02-11 by Jerry Olson
Well, this image sure looks brown on my monitor. A nice shade of sepia! Jerry And yes, my monitor is calibrated.
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2003-02-11 by Julian Thomas
... How about I told you that you don t understand me - its all about 255 shades of grey... Julian
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2003-02-11 by Jerry Olson
April 1, 2008 is the correct date. Jer
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2003-02-11 by Jerry Olson
Yes, PPI Jerry
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2003-02-11 by sanfo2003 <SandyCornelius@cox.net>
I had a rather nasty argument with my girlfriend last night and during the conversation she observed, You re so insensitive, everything is always black and
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2003-02-11 by glewis4457@aol.com
In a message dated 2/11/2003 9:55:56 AM Central Standard Time, ... I have been grinding what is left of my teeth about this issue (and a couple more) for some
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2003-02-11 by Bob Frost
Austin, Here is a reply from Kennedy McEwan on the x7x list on the same subject. He seems to believe (has proved?) that the Epson driver upsamples to 720 or
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2003-02-11 by Bob Frost
Austin, Doesn t the fact that Epson state that their drivers work internally at 360 ppi for large-format and 720 ppi for desktop, suggest that this IS the way
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2003-02-11 by Bob Frost
Peter, Surely that depends on the viewing distance? I ve just looked at some 18x12 black-only prints (from a 1280/90) and at arms length or further I cannot
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2003-02-11 by Bob Frost
Austin, QImage begs to differ! That program upsamples from whatever you have to 720 ppi (for small Epsons) in one go using Lanczos (so it doesn t have to be
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2003-02-11 by Bob Frost
Austin, Since the large Epsons use 360 ppi internally, why shouldn t one say that sending 360 ppi is optimal ? It avoids the driver doing any upsampling of
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2003-02-11 by Julian Thomas
Its a digital BW paper i.e. RC colour paper. Laser printers are RGB machines so all paper is going to be colour. There are labs in London that produce good
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2003-02-11 by Tony Terlecki
... Is that output to B&W paper or is the lab just printing a neutral print to colour paper? Do you find shadow detail is still there or do you have to set new
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2003-02-11 by marcel laufer
I am an occasional reader of these postings and have a far simpler understanding of the technological issues explored here than most. It is therefore
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2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin
Hi Roy, ... Thanks for the info! I d like to see more about why they do it that way. How have you found the dither, with respect to quality...compared to the
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2003-02-11 by Austin Franklin
Hi Alex, ... No shots fired...though this myth keeps popping up it s head up every now and then... ... Testing this (or anything in question) out for your self
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2003-02-11 by peter nelson
At 06:34 AM 2/11/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com ... So you ve heard some rumors about the 2008 PMA show? Actually your answer is the
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2003-02-11 by Julian Thomas
Peter, what can I say?! Having tried all manner of BW I no longer use inkjets to print - I output to Lambda. I ve found a lab with a perfect profiled setup and
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2003-02-11 by peter nelson
At 06:34 AM 2/11/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com ... Darkroom prints don t show any noticable shift, to me. Neither does my collection
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2003-02-11 by Iain Kirk
Now then, being a newbie this thread appealed when I saw it appear. Save to say that I now feel overwhelmed by the wide and various ideas, systems, software
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2003-02-11 by peter nelson
At 06:34 AM 2/11/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com ... I ve tested it quite a bit. My wife is a (chamber) musician who often has groups
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2003-02-11 by danielstaver <daniel@petraflux.com>
I ve posted a scan twice now - Here and on the photo.net forum. The light black looks like this: http://daniel.staver.no/img/bo2.jpg I ve also tried GIMP-print
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2003-02-11 by peter nelson
At 06:34 AM 2/11/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com ... James Downs, the poster before you in today s list, says it s gray. He actually
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2003-02-11 by peter nelson
At 06:34 AM 2/11/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com ... You re the first person here to say the light black is actually gray. Others
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2003-02-11 by peter nelson
At 06:34 AM 2/11/2003 +0000, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com ... Yes because they market it as a printer capable of doing good black and white
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