Digital BW, The Print

I can not find the right workflow for Epson 1280, MIS VM, PR curves, 
EAM, and PS7. My prints looked posterized in the 70-80% tones. I have 
tried changing dot gain, RGB, sRGB, 1290 curves, I just can't correct 
the problem. Any solutions?
Thanks, Corin

Corin_Dickinson wrote:
> I can not find the right workflow for Epson 1280, MIS VM, PR 
curves, 
> EAM, and PS7. My prints looked posterized in the 70-80% tones. I 
have 
> tried changing dot gain, RGB, sRGB, 1290 curves, I just can't 
correct 
> the problem. Any solutions?
> Thanks, Corin

Corin,

I've been printing with PS6, VM, PR curves and EAM on my 1280 and 
liked it most of the time but I was seeing some posterization and 
also slight banding sometimes.  Tried all kinds of combinations and 
just now tried printing with Qimage.  Did everything in PS6 and 
saved the file with the PR curves.  Opened it in Qimage and in the 
print settings set it for 2880 dpi with all the other settings as 
per the PR workflow.  Why wouldn't I have the 2880dpi option in 
PS6?  Anyway I turned off the printer profile in Qimage thinking 
that I didn't want to double profile (Q doesn't have a "same as 
source" setting) and let her rip.  It took forever to print of 
course but what a difference.  I'm going to play with this 
combination some more.  I wonder what BO will look like in Q?  Has 
anybody else used Qimage?

Tom Husband

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Husband 
<thusband@s...>" <thusband@s...> wrote:
> Corin_Dickinson wrote:
> > I can not find the right workflow for Epson 1280, MIS VM, PR 
> curves, 
> > EAM, and PS7. My prints looked posterized in the 70-80% tones. I 
> have 
> > tried changing dot gain, RGB, sRGB, 1290 curves, I just can't 
> correct 
> > the problem. Any solutions?
> > Thanks, Corin
> 
> Corin,
> 
> I've been printing with PS6, VM, PR curves and EAM on my 1280 and 
> liked it most of the time but I was seeing some posterization and 
> also slight banding sometimes.  Tried all kinds of combinations 
and 
> just now tried printing with Qimage.  Did everything in PS6 and 
> saved the file with the PR curves.  Opened it in Qimage and in the 
> print settings set it for 2880 dpi with all the other settings as 
> per the PR workflow.  Why wouldn't I have the 2880dpi option in 
> PS6?  Anyway I turned off the printer profile in Qimage thinking 
> that I didn't want to double profile (Q doesn't have a "same as 
> source" setting) and let her rip.  It took forever to print of 
> course but what a difference.  I'm going to play with this 
> combination some more.  I wonder what BO will look like in Q?  Has 
> anybody else used Qimage?
> 
> Tom Husband

Hi; 

I've been using Qimage a bit after hearing some intriguing claims on 
the wide format forum; I'm quite impressed with the combination of 
interpolation and sharpenning they use, it allows you to print large 
files very small without downsizing first, with a marked increase in 
smoothness and sharpness over PS and Epson driver performing the 
same task. The interface is a bit quirky, but it didn't take long to 
figure out what I needed to do. Well worth the $40.00 they want for 
it!

Problem solved! Thank you everyone. Tyler B.'s curves worked for me!
Corin