RE: Pictorico pinholes

[Mike Kirwan <mkirwan@pacbell.net>]

I had a similar problem but with printing on regular paper. I tracked it
down to my an error in my work process. 

I scanned the negative - did all the necessary stuff like applying curves,
touching up, setting the image size, resampling and my final control was to
apply an unsharp mask. I never thought to go check the image again after
sharpening. Oooops there were tiny pinholes. Checking the out put image
there they were, removed the unsharp mask and they disappeared. So now I
always check the image at 100% magnification after applying the unsharp
mask. Painful but it works.

Mike 

-----Original Message-----
From: Diana Bloomfield [mailto:dhbloomfield@bellsouth.net] 
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 3:59 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Pictorico pinholes

Hi all,

I have a question maybe someone can answer here.  I have used Pictorico for
a while, with an Epson 2200.  I have been working on one particular
negative, and every single time I print it, on Pictorico, I get these little
pinholes (always always up in the blank sky area).  I have cleaned
everything-- my house, the dog, the computer/scanner/printer, the room
itself, and I've cleaned the original negative obsessively.  The entire
room/computer/scanner/ 
printer/negative/dog are cleaner than they've ever been.   I opened  
up a new packet of Pictorico, thinking that maybe something was wrong with
the original packet I was using.  But the first one out of the box--I
printed it, and it was all clean, except for about 6 little pinholes in the
sky.  Well, they vary in size.  I'm going crazy with this.

They don't seem to be dust marks; they just look more like little places
where the ink isn't going down properly--or something.  So I don't know if
this is a static electricity problem or a humidity problem or what.  I
really haven't a clue.  So if anyone else has suffered from this, please
tell me what to do about these little pinholes.  I'm going crazy here.

Thanks for any help!

Diana