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Re: Mottled Pattern in 21 Step

2005-12-24 by joshhackney

Tom,

Have you tried a nozzle alignment?  I was suprised on my 2200 how far it was out of 
alignment straight out of the box.  Just a guess.

Good luck.

Josh


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@i...> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@i...
>

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