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With the Ultrastable I'm using Lysonic E for the 3000.
Other notes about the settings - I have custom profiles made with Photo
Quality Ink Jet paper inside the driver - however, I have tried most of the
other settings - Ink Jet Canvas, Glossy paper etc. - no dice.
Will try Jon's Gaussain Noise idea.
I really like the canvas for some of the things I do.
http://www.oliverart.com/modelsn/mod8mod.shtml see image MOD30 (the Jpeg
really loses something) which is an image where the canvas lends a great
deal, but where the very dark background is giving me the wide streaking
problems on the canvas (light coloured streaks - almost scraped like or
lack of deposition). I printed this image on canvas got the issue, and then
immediately on InkJet paper to "test" deposition issues - looked fine. I
don't understand the scraping as causation because although sometimes it
gets better print to print, it is never evident on some images and always,
to some, extent evident on others.
On the other hand MOD29 on the same web page for example, also benefits
from the canvas and I have absolutely no problems creating this image on
the Ultrastable. It looks great, at least in my humble opinion. Had a
customer ultimately buy a different, but similar image weekend before last.
When the long promised longevity papers and ink combination for the desktop
(3000) get published, I may review my approach to a longevity solution. I
really can't afford to run two sets of ink in my archival printer (changing
inks, because of flushing the system, is very expensive). Nor do I really
want a third printer.
It seems like a dichotomy is developing. Smaller gamut - larger longevity.
I'd like the larger gamut, and as long as the larger gamut solution
produces a result that is competitive, in terms of longevity, with standard
chemistry based photographic processes, I'm going to be sorely tempted to
convert. However, I do like the canvas and hope the larger gamut longevity
inks have results forthcoming on the UltraStable canvas. I've noticed that
pricing on these medias essentially make this your choice.
I wouldn't want to give up the canvas texture, there is a flaxen weave that
presumptively will have results as it is made/labeled by the broader gamut
manufacturer, but Jon describes this as pretty different than the canvas.
If there are no results on the canvas on this ink - tough choices again....
If however, I can get all of my prints to work easily on the other papers
(textures) and can't get the canvas to work on all of the images, I may
have to make a difficult choice. I hate experimenting.
Just to work through the experiment on changing inks would cost - a week or
so of time min, a set of carts ($250), set of varied media ($250), profiles
- even semi custom ????, a flush on my Lysonic ink ($60) and at the end I
might not wind up with anything ultimately usable.
I'd really like to solve this canvas issue and have the other stuff fall
into place to make this a no brainer decision for me - at least an experiment.
oliver
At 11:37 AM 8/22/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Oliver,
>
>What inkset are you using?
>
>John Ennis
>
>
> oliver wrote:
> The one issue I've had is on the ultrastable canvas. With wide areas
>of
> very similar coloure - like background skys - I sometimes get what
>looks
> like very wide banding. Yes the heads are clean, smaller prints just
>before
> or after and those with no large areas of continuous coloure, or
>those on a
> test sheet of flat paper do not exhibit this problem.
>
> I'm not happy about this issue. Any thoughts, other than changing
>output
> media or using this texture as a "feature".... (sometimes it really
>is a
> beneficial feature).
>
> oliver
>
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