I am attempting to create a profile with my 1400 using UTFS inks. Looking at a printed 21 step wedge, the lighter end seems to rise smoothly to about 60% where it flattens out, and from there on there is not much difference between the darker steps. The prints look as you would expect, not too bad until the part-shadow and shadow. I have an idea that the dark grey ink is being set as lighter than it really is. When I print the first calibration print, the K ink limit comes up at 45%. Now, should I adjust the limit and then print another ink pattern page, without being in calibration mode, adjusting the setup of max ink limit until the printed ink limit is up around 100% instead of 45%. If I don't, how then can the density of the dark gray ink be set accurately? eg. in the calibration scan, the 100% patch of the K row is the same density right down to 45%. That means that I am attempting to find the 100% LK point down below 45% of K. I think it is actually higher than that. Any comments?
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Prints are too dark.
2011-09-26 by Greg