Digital BW, The Print

I've been using the MIS-VM inks with a 1270 with moderate success. 
After reading Nigel Rheam's post on the Piezography message board, I 
tried something today. I went to the Epson web site and downloaded 
the 1280 driver. I installed this on my computer, and then printed 
with the 1280 curves, pretending that my 1270 was a 1280. 
Interestingly enough, results with the Roark 1280 mw curve and the 
Tyler CRV08 were better than with the 1270 curves. The stepwedges 
produced were more linear in both cases. 

Perhaps other users can verify this finding. If so, this might be the 
solution to using the 1270 with other MIS inksets as well.

Evan Wolarsky

Thanks for the tip Evan. Just curios, did you try any of those curves
through the 1270 driver too?

Todd

> I've been using the MIS-VM inks with a 1270 with moderate success.
> After reading Nigel Rheam's post on the Piezography message board, I
> tried something today. I went to the Epson web site and downloaded
> the 1280 driver. I installed this on my computer, and then printed
> with the 1280 curves, pretending that my 1270 was a 1280.
> Interestingly enough, results with the Roark 1280 mw curve and the
> Tyler CRV08 were better than with the 1270 curves. The stepwedges
> produced were more linear in both cases.
> 
> Perhaps other users can verify this finding. If so, this might be the
> solution to using the 1270 with other MIS inksets as well.
> 
> Evan Wolarsky

Evan-

How did you get the 1280 driver to work for the 1270? I had trouble 
loading the driver since it kept looking for the 1280, but it did 
load...now it can't find a 1280 and won't print.

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "wolarsky" <wolarsky@i...> 
wrote:
> I've been using the MIS-VM inks with a 1270 with moderate success. 
> After reading Nigel Rheam's post on the Piezography message board, 
I 
> tried something today. I went to the Epson web site and downloaded 
> the 1280 driver. I installed this on my computer, and then printed 
> with the 1280 curves, pretending that my 1270 was a 1280. 
> Interestingly enough, results with the Roark 1280 mw curve and the 
> Tyler CRV08 were better than with the 1270 curves. The stepwedges 
> produced were more linear in both cases. 
> 
> Perhaps other users can verify this finding. If so, this might be 
the 

> solution to using the 1270 with other MIS inksets as well.
> 
> Evan Wolarsky

Todd,
I had first tried the 1280 curves on the 1270 without success. After 
I found that they worked with the 1280 driver, I again printed side-
by-side curves to assure that I hadn't changed anything else. The 
1280 curves print well with the 1280 driver (on the 1270), but not 
with the 1270 driver.

Tom,
I'm using a PC with Windows 98. I simply downloaded the drivers from 
the Epson site (nearly 5 megs.), and they installed without any 
problem. The computer doesn't seem to know that the printer is really 
a 1270. This morning, out of curiousity, I printed a document out of 
Microsoft Word with the 1280 driver without any problem.

Evan Wolarsky

Evan-

I'll have to try printing with the 1280 driver again tonight.

I did learn something terrific, however. If you just change the name 
of the 1270 to 1280 and use the Piezo driver set at "better" rather 
than "best" (which on a 1280 is 2880 dpi)you can make an excellent 
print. (setting at best, which I had tried in the past, doesn't work 
at all... Print sizing, etc are waaaay off). 

I only ran one print through using this just to see if it would work 
and then had to quit...but it looked great. Will print a step test 
tonight to confirm.

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "wolarsky" <wolarsky@i...> 
wrote:
> Todd,
> I had first tried the 1280 curves on the 1270 without success. 
After 
> I found that they worked with the 1280 driver, I again printed side-
> by-side curves to assure that I hadn't changed anything else. The 
> 1280 curves print well with the 1280 driver (on the 1270), but not 
> with the 1270 driver.
> 
> Tom,
> I'm using a PC with Windows 98. I simply downloaded the drivers 
from 
> the Epson site (nearly 5 megs.), and they installed without any 
> problem. The computer doesn't seem to know that the printer is 
really 
> a 1270. This morning, out of curiousity, I printed a document out 
of 

> Microsoft Word with the 1280 driver without any problem.
> 
> Evan Wolarsky