[alt-photo] Re: Epson 2400 ink density problems

[Christina Anderson]

John,
Thanks for the thanks and glad you got it solved.  

I am going through the diginegs part of my alt class at the moment, and figured with the amount of times I have taught this I probably have encountered every problem in the book.  Now, I am not Dan Burkholder (can't imagine the snafus he has seen in all his years teaching) but just when you figure you'd seen it all, something else crops up.  

So today, what happened for the first time that I noticed, is when the students were bringing their images from one lab to another, the printing lab computer was switching the files from Adobe 1998 back to sRGB "on the fly" so to speak.  So they thought that they had that part of the problem licked, and it wasn't.

THEN two students printed out negs for BW printing and forgot to desaturate/remove the color of the original image, so they got these wild red negs with magenta trees and whatnot, very cool.  It was late, I had them print them that way anyway, and wouldn't ya know, the print was cool!  

And then I learn so many things from them, like the "expand view" on the drop down menu to make the curves palette bigger, and the window/arrange/float all in windows in case you lose your top of your image and can't drag it down from underneath the control bar in CS4...sharing tips like this is such a good give and take between student and faculty and I end up learning more than they do I think.

There's just not enough time in the day to learn everything Photoshop has to offer.

This week is calibration of BW and next we start cyanotype.  Starting out with BW is always quickest and very easy to spot mistakes when they occur.

Chris

Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:01 PM, John Brewer wrote:

> After a couple of goes I've managed to sort it. It was the 'no color
> management'. It wasn't openly displayed as in the 1290 printer driver.
> 
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Chris.
> 
> John.
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