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From: "Pål Jensen"
Subject: Digital darkroom frustrations!
Aaaargh...Just got the replacement Epson R2400 printer just to experience
that this one also give horizontal stripes (paper in portrait position),
although not as pronounced as the first one. Everything is different from
when I had the first sample: the software is new, printer driver is new,
the printer is new, I use a new scanner. I've tried all kinds of DPI
settings (BTW why do Nikon insist that I set the DPI at 360 on a 4000DPI
scanner?). Paper selection is correct. Yes, I run the cleaning and head
adjustment procedures to no effect. What is going on? It cannot be rocket
science to get decent prints from printer, or is it?
Anyway, I'm not that impressed with the whole setup; apart from the
stripes the Nikon 9000 scanner and the R2400 printer gives only borderline
photo quality prints at best. Maybe its just my standards thats to high.
Banding is generally caused by running the printer at lower than ideal
resolution.
In the printer driver, try turning colour management off, and in Photoshop,
tell it to manage the colour using the paper profile supplied by the paper
manufacturer.
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/photoshop/ has a few screenshots off my rig
showing my set up, which seems to work pretty well.
I still don't think scanning film and printing to inkjet is the way to get
the best quality out of the film, but I am a pretty good darkroom worker,
and know a few excellent darkroom workers, so I do have access to best
quality optical enlargments.
I also seem to be a member of a minority on this one.
William Robb
