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RE: [QuadtoneRIP] Mottled Pattern in 21 Step

2005-12-23 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: Tom Husband
>
> Thanks Paul.  I'm seeing this on the Ink Pattern Page where you
> characterize the ink paper combination and there's really no ink load
> adjustment.  You start at 100 mode and determine when the ink maxes
> out.  The mottling was there even after I printed the second page at
> 75.  It starts around 40 and runs all the way to 100.  I wonder if it's
> the ink paper combination?  I didn't see it with Kayenta.

Does the ink get much darker than the point where it begins to mottle? If it
does, then I doubt it's too much ink. But that's the only situation in which
I've seen anything I'd call mottling. And even then, it was at the dark end
of the scale, and very subtle. Also, I saw it on an RC paper (Epson
Semigloss, I think). I don't know the Entrada paper, but if that's a matte
paper, then I doubt it's an ink load issue, either.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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