Digital BW, The Print

> Dan Culbertson
> (just passing through)

Nice to see you here, Dan!

Hey Dan!

Long time no hear! Do you mind if I put up copies of the resolution test
files on the Digital B&W Files section? Your resolution test patches might
also come in handy.

http://www.campfiredan.net/infoshare/resolution_test_patches/

Wouldn't mind putting up a good portion of the info on your site as well.
Lots of info in there for anyone interested in working with Quads in CMYK
plus a wealth of other things.

Martin Wesley

http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: <danculb@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Resolution test for printers


(snip)

>
> Try the resolution test file at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/epson-inkjet/files/ (it is called
> Printer ResTest).  I found this somewhere or other on the web
> and made a few changes for color inkjets vs B&W laser printers.
> Does a fair job of comparing printers since it gives you a
> numerical index -- but only for full color inks (doesn't capture
> anything about the light color inks or about any ink printed at less
> than full intensity).  You should be able to change the
> transparency to find that info if it is important but that starts
> getting complex.   No one seems to have deleted it from the
> Epson Inkjest site files folder so it must still be usefull for
> something I guess.  There are
> instructions for opening the Illustrator file with Photoshop in the
> self extracting file or you can just use it in Adobe Illustrator.
> The
> original .ps file vesion is there as well but it only does black ink
> unless you change the color.
>
> Personally  I don't use it any more -- if my eyes like the results of
> a print I don't worry about the actual resolution.  Then again my
> eyes ain't what they used to be either so maybe I should use it.
>
> Dan Culbertson
> (just passing through)
>

Hi Martin,
Feel free to put the resolution test file, the patches and whatever 
else you'd like from my site into the Files section or elsewhere 
as you see fit.  I'm happy that someone might want to use the 
info.  However, some of the step-by-step instructions that 
mention Photoshop are written for older PS versions and might 
need to be translated for Photoshop 7 by anyone using them.  I 
haven't updated much on that site for a long long time!  :-(  

In fact the oldest thing on my site discusses how to make a 
quadtone file with Stylus RIP, Sommerset Velvet, and MIS gray 
inks (rather than with the "Icefields" software they were originally 
developed for).  I think that is probably the first "quadtone 
workflow" ever posted so it may have interest to those with 
historical inclinations - but probably  no functional value. Time 
sure flies :-)

Dan


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin 
Wesley" <mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> Hey Dan!
> 
> Long time no hear! Do you mind if I put up copies of the 
resolution test
> files on the Digital B&W Files section? Your resolution test 
patches might
> also come in handy.
> 
> http://www.campfiredan.net/infoshare/resolution_test_patches/
> 
> Wouldn't mind putting up a good portion of the info on your site 
as well.
> Lots of info in there for anyone interested in working with 
Quads in CMYK

> plus a wealth of other things.
> 
> Martin Wesley