Digital BW, The Print

Just in case anyone who makes digital negs is thinking about this 
printer: I bought one tonight, and I'm taking it back tomorrow. It does 
a fine job of color printing, especially with the premium profiles that 
come with. Until, that is, you look at them with a lupe. I tried every 
high quality setting combination I could think of but the microbanding 
persisted. What made it worse is that the glossy pigments don't work 
well with IJ tranny film. The saturation and contrast are so low I had 
to crank my VC contrast up all the way, which made the microbanding and 
the printer 'grain' perfectly obvious to even my tired eyes... All in 
all, a total distaster, especially since there is no BO option AT ALL, 
so you can't even take advantage of those tiny dots for that.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> Just in case anyone who makes digital negs is thinking about this 
> printer: I bought one tonight, and I'm taking it back tomorrow. It does 
> a fine job of color printing, especially with the premium profiles that 
> come with. Until, that is, you look at them with a lupe. I tried every 
> high quality setting combination I could think of but the microbanding 
> persisted. What made it worse is that the glossy pigments don't work 
> well with IJ tranny film. The saturation and contrast are so low I had 
> to crank my VC contrast up all the way, which made the microbanding and 
> the printer 'grain' perfectly obvious to even my tired eyes... All in 
> all, a total distaster, especially since there is no BO option AT ALL, 
> so you can't even take advantage of those tiny dots for that.

Steve,

I think you're going to have to wait for the 1800 port of QTR before you can get a negative out of the 1800. 

What were you printing, a UV based alternative process like Pt/Pd, or a visible light silver process? Multigrade papers are the hardest to get a clean print on, because you have to balance green and blue.

Does anyone know if support for the Espon 1800 is in work or planned 
for QTR?   


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "koloshor" 
<wiz@n...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> > Just in case anyone who makes digital negs is thinking about 
this 
> > printer: I bought one tonight, and I'm taking it back tomorrow. 
It does 
> > a fine job of color printing, especially with the premium 
profiles that 
> > come with. Until, that is, you look at them with a lupe. I tried 
every 
> > high quality setting combination I could think of but the 
microbanding 
> > persisted. What made it worse is that the glossy pigments don't 
work 
> > well with IJ tranny film. The saturation and contrast are so low 
I had 
> > to crank my VC contrast up all the way, which made the 
microbanding and 
> > the printer 'grain' perfectly obvious to even my tired eyes... 
All in 
> > all, a total distaster, especially since there is no BO option 
AT ALL, 
> > so you can't even take advantage of those tiny dots for that.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I think you're going to have to wait for the 1800 port of QTR 
before you can get a negative out of the 1800. 
> 
> What were you printing, a UV based alternative process like Pt/Pd, 
or a visible light silver process? Multigrade papers are the hardest 
to get a clean print on, because you have to balance green and blue.