Hi, I am using a G5 Mac, OSX.4 and Photoshop CS2 to print on special "clear film" for exposing positives in several alternative photo processes:screenprinting, lithographic plates, and polymer film for photo-etching. To this point, I am unable to print "pure" black. Even when selecting "black only" in the printer dialogue, it prints with all 3 blacks rendering a perception of grey through tonality, rather than the light-stopping black that I need. I have converted my images to various DPI bitmaps for printing, as well as leaving them in greyscale; and I have tried just about every other combination of image, Photoshop print dialogue option and Epson printer dialogue option with varying degrees of success. Ultimately I want my black "dots" (inkjet dithered) to be BLACK. Agggghhh! My two caveats are: 1) I work in an art school where money is tight, and would prefer to keep the installation of unnecessary software down, if possible, and; 2) I don't want to buy some t-shirt separation rip software to make big clunky halftones. Any suggestions? Can this be accomplished with the Quadtonerip? Something else? Thanks, Rob ++++++++++++++++++++++ Robert Truszkowski Print Media Programme Concordia University Office: EV-9.414 Tel: 514-848-2424 x 4686 Fax: 514-848-3721 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Printing with ONE black only (Epson 9800)??
2007-03-14 by Truszkowski