2018-01-22 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
As Roy has stated (on this forum as well as on the update notes for 2.7.8) QTR is no longer shipping with Piezography curves. There are many reasons for that
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2018-01-22 by jthacker@...
Walker, Thanks Looks like the community edition installs the curves. I m asking about the printer quad3880-K7. Is that printer get defined using the install
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2018-01-22 by andrey@...
Brian, thanks for trying that out on your printer. I just did the same on my 1430 running Paul Roark s inks, and the microbanding problem is still there.
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2018-01-22 by Walker Blackwell
Piezo curves here: https://piezography.com/downloads/piezography-community-edition All the best, Walker On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 8:09 PM Roy Harrington
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2018-01-22 by Roy Harrington
Piezo maintains there own profiles now. Roy On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 5:04 PM, jthacker@pacbell.net [QuadtoneRIP]
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2018-01-22 by jthacker@...
Roy, Does the 2.7.8 version still support the K7 printers? I just finished speaking with a friend and he said he was not able to find a quad3880-K7 printer or
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2018-01-21 by Walker Blackwell
P600 and P800 print exactly the same at 2880 (on paper) even though the nozzle size of the P600 is just slightly smaller. Best, Walker On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at
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2018-01-21 by Roy Harrington
Hi Brian As far as the where the weaving is, I m the one who figured out how the Epson driver worked with the P800 and then made the QTR driver work in the
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2018-01-21 by richard@...
That is exactly the procedure. Here is a posy I wrote about it a few years ago. It is based on doing it on macOS, but I would get notepad++ to do this on
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2018-01-21 by brian_downunda@...
Further to my previous response, I ve done some testing with an image printed at both settings. I confirm my earlier conclusions. For my R1900, 2880 Super
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2018-01-21 by brian_downunda@...
OK, now I m confused. Both Roy and Walker say that the P800 weaving code is in the driver rather than the firmware. Walker says that there s no first and
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2018-01-21 by David Aimone
After having an Epson 4900, I actually love my P800, better than the 4900 in many ways. It just doesn’t play nice QTR :( patterning across the image in the
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2018-01-21 by Walker Blackwell
Meant small formats though. Pxxxx still have weave internal. W On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:13 PM Walker Blackwell ... Meant small
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2018-01-21 by Walker Blackwell
I don’t see first last issues with P800 FYI. Epson has moved to in-driver weave for some reason on all of these printers. Me thinks because they don’t have
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2018-01-20 by brian_downunda@...
I am fairly certain that super was enabled. As you say, it was a lot slower. What I did to test this was to create a smooth block of tone 64 (/ 255) two
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2018-01-20 by Roy Harrington
Hi Brian That s disappointing and surprising. It ought to be somewhat different. I wonder if its possible that somehow it didn t get enabled. It should be
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2018-01-20 by Roy Harrington
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 2:54 PM, brian_downunda@yahoo.com [QuadtoneRIP]
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2018-01-20 by brian_downunda@...
I just ran a test on my R1900 and the answer is no, it s much the same. I d expect the same answer for the 1430. Does the P800 also have this micro-banding in
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2018-01-20 by andrey@...
Roy, thanks for the information and new software! Does the 2880 super option help with the banding problems on the top and bottom inch of a page on the 1430?
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2018-01-19 by brian_downunda@...
Thanks, that s helpful. I have probably read some of that material before somewhere and then forgotten it. In the rather hot (38C) light of a new day I should
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2018-01-19 by Roy Harrington
A couple comments about the new 2880 super selection. The larger Pro printers are not affected including 3800, 3880, and all 4000 and up printers. The
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2018-01-19 by David Aimone
Any fixes likely with Epson P800 banding using QTR? David Aimone david@aimonephoto.com http://www.aimonephoto.com ... Any fixes likely with Epson P800 banding
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2018-01-19 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
... 38xx do not have super but the small formats (13”) do. IMO, the 38s and up could use it as well as this would help resolve the cross-hatch dither problem
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2018-01-19 by brian_downunda@...
This is great news. Another big thank you. Are we likely to see any see benefits from this new setting for older printers, like the 3880, 3800, R3000, R2880,
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2018-01-18 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Thanks again Roy. I confirmed that this 2880x2880 resolution is working to eliminate micro-banding for all Gloss and Matte Piezography printing on SureColor
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2018-01-18 by richard@...
I just released another new set of profiling tools that use my own partitioning and linearization system to create the quad curves directly from the ink
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2018-01-18 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Also, thank you for taking out the deprecated Piezography curves! Best, Walker ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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2018-01-18 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Thank you Roy. Hopefully this addresses the micro-line issue with P-Series printers and we can release Piezography on for these printers asap after testing and
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2018-01-18 by roy@...
There s a new version of QTR driver -- both Mac and PC. Main addition is a 2880 super resolution/weave selection on many of the small printers. Large
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2018-01-16 by kjersti.botnedal@...
Thanks Roy - finally an honest answer.
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2018-01-15 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
... We did get it working on the x900 (wide formats larger than 17). This post is on community.inkjetmall.com forum for the instructions, and I believe on the
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2018-01-15 by Roy Harrington
Hi Kjersti Sorry to hear you are still having problems. I do the QTR driver software but Piezography inks company is separate. I haven t had any troubles nor
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2018-01-15 by kjersti.botnedal@...
Since I haven`t heard from you again, I read this instruction carefully one more time and realized you probably didn`t understand my first message. I can not
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2018-01-12 by richard@...
Is it getting easier? In short, yes it is getting a lot easier than the old way of using a text file with the ink recipe and compiling the quad curves. For the
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2018-01-12 by David Kachel
A nozzle check was the very first thing I did. David Kachel _________________________ Artist-Photographer Fine B&W Photographs & Photogravures WEBSITE:
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2018-01-12 by sanking@...
Have you done a nozzle check recently? If you are using only one ink in your profile any blocking of the nozzle could cause big difference in density. I have
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2018-01-11 by david@...
This is about the only place I can think of where someone might have an answer to this conundrum. I have a 3800 and a 3880, both with the same Matte Black ink
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2018-01-11 by kjersti.botnedal@...
With roll paper it´s not possible. As I mentioned in my previous mail, error message is that I use wrong paper size, which is wrong. I use correct paper size,
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2018-01-11 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
It is a problem which I have been tackling for many months. Stay tuned . . . Best, Walker ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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2018-01-11 by David Aimone
Are you getting the dreaded P800 banding when using it with QTR? I gave up and doing my negatives without it. Sent from my iPhone ... I have not verified it
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2018-01-11 by Mark Savoia
Great, thanks for the tips. Mark stillrivereditions.com
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2018-01-11 by Roy Harrington
As mentioned there are no hard limits but a couple things are worth doing to keep memory usage down. 1) convert to grayscale if in RGB (assuming B&W printing)
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2018-01-11 by Mark Savoia
Well I have that but also have the extra hard drive installed in the P9000. So should work? Mark stillrivereditions.com ... Well I have that but also have the
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2018-01-11 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
Because PrintTool rips to PDF, I’ve done nearly 20 feet on the 11880. There is the issue of having enough ram. I think the only way for me to do it was to
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2018-01-11 by mark@...
Can I use Print Tool (mac version) to print something 44 x 20+ feet on my 9900 or P9000? Mark Savoia stillrivereditions.com
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2018-01-11 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
... I have not verified it by dumping the NVRAM of the printer, but the printer throws zero non-genuine warnings when you use the chip decoder on it. That
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2018-01-11 by roscoetuff@...
I have an Epson Surecolor P800, and given the copyright (!!!) mess, I m pretty much stuck with Epson cartridges. Went with Imageprint by Colorbyte for
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2018-01-10 by lehuhn@...
I am working with Richard Boutwell s Quad Tone Profiler and I want to smooth data in Data Tool before I linearize the curves.. I did this successfully for a
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2018-01-10 by kjersti.botnedal@...
Yes, you are right, a bit unclear on the Piezography Forum. Point is, I coudn´t print at all. Reason: I finally discovered that I had ticked the wrong box on
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2018-01-10 by forums@walkerblackwell.com
On the Piezography forum is maybe was a little unclear that you were trying to print two times. There were many subjects that you were stating in the same
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