Ender100@aol.com
Date: 10/15/02-12:19:36 PM Z
Hi Judy,
You are right, the 1160 Driver does not have SUPERMicroweave, only
Microweave. It does have a choice between Fine Dithering and Error
Diffusion, I would pick Error Diffusion. Some of the choices are only
available if you pick the right media types. Try changing media types (Try
one of the Photgraphic paper choices) til you get the most choices regarding
dots per inch, microweave, etc. The different media types will cause the
printer to lay down more or less ink. you can see this when you print a step
tablet with the different media types. Many of the professional printers use
this fact to adjust their printing. They may use a media type quite
different from what they are printing on and have that further tuned by using
a custom printer profile.
Also, some Epson drivers will limit your choices of ppi and microweave if you
choose to print with black ink only... this is a bummer. I suppose they
thought that you were going to print a memo instead of a photo with this
setting. This is not true of the newer printers though.
Good luck!
Mark Nelson
In a message dated 10/15/02 2:21:31 AM, jseigel@panix.com writes:
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 Ender100@aol.com wrote:
>
> Microbanding runs in the direction of the print head... left to right. High
> resolution (1440 in your case) with Super Microweave on will sometimes solve
> this. Also, you can get it from not having the paper thickness lever set
> properly.
Unless there's some control I've missed, the 1160 won't do microweave on
any setting but 360 dpi, and I don't recall "super microweave" at any
speed.
> You can get "vertical" banding from the scanner. If the CCD's are not all
> functioning equally. Some scanners, like the Imacon, have a method of
This material wasn't scanned, it was purely made in photoshop -- a
fabricated 13 step test strip: 13 flat rectangles of graduated density.
The effect was faint very straight lines about 1/64th inch apart running
the length of the test strip (vertically) but in the print only visible
(faintly) in the highlights. So far seen only in the test strip print. I
thought it might be an artifact of the flat planes, which I think the
printer resents. Or anyway has trouble with.
> Passes refers to how many times the printer goes over the same portion of
the
> paper to lay down ink. Usually more passes means smoother laydown of ink.
I
> think the 10000 can be adjusted from 2, 4, 6, and 8 passes. I get the
> smoothest with 8, but it takes a little longer. You can see this both at
the
> beginning and end of the print, where the paper stops moving, but the print
> head keeps making passes.
>
> I'm sure 360 will zip through the printer... but probably not the best
> negative... but maybe good enough for gum. heheheheeh just kidding.
Actually it was awful. I'd picked a difficult image,faces were very
spotty & the curve smoothed them wonderfully. Except at 360 dpi looked
like measles again.
> Error diffusion dither is what you want. That choice is a choice of the
> Epson driver, not a setting you program into the printer like the number of
> passes.
Hmmm, that's not clear -- I have to choose one or the other. Both options
are available on most settings.
> The Epson printer drivers differ somewhat between printers and of course
> between versions. They also differ in how they appear in different versions
> of Photoshop.
The b---ards never let you be. As I recall, I had more printing options
in Photoshop 4. This is 7. I've considered going back to 4 for these
negatives, but someone told me you shouldn't run both on same computer.
Is that true, or another urban myth? >>
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