Digital BW, The Print

> > The bugs I am talking about specifically are the Horizontal stripes,
> > (This is NOT banding), this was stripes that were printed. NO IMAGE
> > appeared on the paper, ONLY the stripes.
> 
> Ah, I never saw or even heard of that one!
> 
> > The other was the screen door
> > pattern which ruined hundreds of prints. These things appeared at
> > random. I never knew if I was going to get a perfect piezo print or a
> > paper full of horizontal lines (Thick and Thin, from 1/8th of an inch to
> > 2 inches across), or the screen door pattern. The screen door pattern
> > sometimes showed up only in light areas like a sky, and sometimes in
> > only small parts of the print, and sometimes over the whole print.
> > Sometimes they were barely visible and sometimes you could see them from
> > 2 feet away.
> 
> Hum.  I don't recall ever hearing about the thick banding issue...but I did
> hear about the screen door issue.  I've been using 1160s and 3000s since
> Piezo came out, and never ran into either of these issues.
> 
> > These must have been bugs, because they were fixed in
> > updates of the software.
> 
> Could very well be.  Were you on a Mac or a PC?  I'm on a PC.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin
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> I was NOT lucky, Jerry.  I, in fact, brought my printer in TWICE to be
> aligned, and both times, I still had banding.  I ended up writing my own
> 3000 alignment utility (I am sorry, it is NOT available, as it is not easy
> to use, and it would take hours to explain how to use it), and got my
> printer aligned perfectly my self.  As I said, luck had not a thing to do
> with it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin
> 
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Austin Franklin 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 7:05 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] bugs and such


  Hi Jerry,

  > Good God, you wrote your own alignment utility! No wonder you never have
  > problems :)

  Yeah, and I design scanners too!

  > The only thing harder would be understanding color management.
  > Or perhaps piloting a space shuttle. No, I could probably do that. I'll
  > never understand color management.

  I avoid the entire color management issue by only doing B&W ;-)

  Regards,

  Austin


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