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Paul's Recommended BW Workspace

2006-03-13 by Peter De Smidt

So with all of the good info presented by Paul and others, I made my first grayscale ICC today. I printed Paul s 21 step stepwedge (with 2.20 max density, as

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New glossy papers for 1280 / UT2 ?

2006-03-13 by Pieris Berreitter

Hi all, I ve been printing on mostly matte papers but it s time to place an order and the images in the queue are better suited for glossy. Last time I tried

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Re: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Helen Bach

Ernst, The tests you give the link to are subtly different from the ones I did because they involve sending a file to the printer at only one ppi value (720

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RE: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Paul D. DeRocco

... 720 pixels per inch. The dot pitch and the pixel pitch are two different things. However, even at 5760x1440, which is 8x2 dots per pixel, there s still a

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File Resolution

2006-03-13 by john794552

Following this thread, I looked up the resolution of of the R2400 on the Epson site. It quoted Up to 5760 x 1440 optimised dpi on suitable media using RPM

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Re: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Ernst Dinkla

... The difference in quality has been more significant in the past. CS/2 got better tools meanwhile. But Qimage improved too. ... A valid point. Qimage isn t

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Re: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Peter De Smidt

Thanks everyone for your reponses! Let s see if I understand this correctly. Qimage supposely does a better job of up and down resizing than Photoshop, and

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RE: [Digital BW] External hard drives

2006-03-13 by John Moody

Jim, Thanks for taking the time to post all the component info. I won’t get into a debate about it, but after 2 years of troubleshooting firewire drive

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Re: [Digital BW] External hard drives

2006-03-13 by Stephen Petegorsky

Bert - the newer LaCie 500 GB d2 has two firewire ports and can be daisy-chained. It s under $500 at most outlets. I have no connection to LaCie, btw, I just

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Re: [Digital BW] External hard drives

2006-03-13 by Bert Katzung

Hi Christy: If you lower your size requirement to 400 GB, you ll find a more larger selection and better GB/$ ratios. And go for one that has 2 Firewire ports

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Re: [Digital BW] External hard drives

2006-03-13 by Greg

At work we use many firewire drive enclosures based on the newest Oxford 911 chip. These are far more reliable than the Avid Quiet Drive enclosures that use

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Inkpress paper?

2006-03-13 by sagaface

Anyone printing with these papers? I just printed BO on some Picture Rag 300, cool tone, and it looks wonderful. It s double sided, very smooth and the price

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Re: Problems with thr Epson R800

2006-03-13 by alanrew42

... wrote: ... Just trying to eliminate some variables... Has the viewing light changed? e.g. from tungsten to fluorescent? Do the prints

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RE: [Digital BW] External hard drives

2006-03-13 by Stephen Billard

Or drives from http://www.ximeta.com/. These are individual drives, but you can gang them together if you want raid. This way you can start small and build

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Re: [Digital BW] External hard drives

2006-03-13 by Steve and Ann Taylor

You might want to consider an NAS system like the Buffalo Technology TerraStation. See http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97 I

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Re: [Digital BW] External hard drives

2006-03-13 by Stephen Petegorsky

Christy - I use a number of LaCie d2 Extreme drives, the latest being the 500 GB. They have all been very reliable and very quiet. I wouldn t hesitate to buy

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RE: [Digital BW] External hard drives

2006-03-13 by Rob

You might also want to look at the Maxtor external drives. There s a new 500GB drive with firewire 800. I ve heard a bunch of horror stories (on the d1scussion

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Re: External hard drives

2006-03-13 by John Vitollo

... I d avoid the LaCie drives because of relablity problems... G-Tech seems overpriced... I m a fan of Seagate drives and buy.com has on sale on Seagate 400G

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External hard drives

2006-03-13 by Christy Stebbins

Dear friends, I m out of disk space. My research on the web for a reliable, affordable and quiet 500 GB external hard drive for my Mac G4 dual processor has

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Re: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Ernst Dinkla

... This page describes some test methods that may be more suitable for photographic images: http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/quality/ Ernst -- Ernst Dinkla

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Re: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Helen Bach

I printed a checkerboard of one pixel squares and sets of lines one pixel wide at 1440, 720, 360, 300 and 288 ppi using the Epson driver and OPM on two

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Re: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Andrew Rodger

This subject seems to come round constantly but each time I think I am getting a grasp of the concepts for scanning and printing, someone says something new

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Re: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Bob Frost

Bert, Roger Clark and others could tell the difference between 300 and 600ppi in blind tests:- http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/printer-ppi/index.html

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Re: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Ernst Dinkla

... Peter, This has been discussed before on several lists. Bruce could be right in some cases, more in the past than now. It is a pity that he didn t explain

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Problems with thr Epson R800

2006-03-13 by piero chessa

Dear all, I have been using the Epson R800 for a good two years now and I have been pretty happy with its black and white results. There were sometimes some

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Re: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Bert Katzung

I have no experience with the larger printers, but I have looked at my 2200 output with images from 240 to 720 DPI and I see no difference. I haven t used a

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RE: [Digital BW] File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Paul Roark

I don t think sending 720 to a desktop Epson will ever degrade the image. I ve experimented with files that had resolutions above that and noticed that some

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Re: New PC recommendations

2006-03-13 by S. Colson

Folks, I work as a small business computing consultant and have a degree in Professional Photography. The company I work for is a Dell dealer, a Microsoft

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File Resolution

2006-03-13 by Peter De Smidt

I ve finally gotten around to scanning some of my 4x5 negatives, and I wonder what ppi I should send to the printer. Given the large size of my files, I could

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Re: which PC to get

2006-03-12 by salongo lee

... Message: 1 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:44:17 -0000 From: garyphoto6 Subject: New PC recommendations Hello, I am planning on buying

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Re: [Digital BW] Digest Number 3801

2006-03-12 by salongo lee

Hello, Yes, I m going to say it Get A Mac. Either a dual processor G5 or the new G5 s with the dual core Intel processor and load it up with ram. Forget

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