RE: Ilford Semi-matte strange blacks

["Anna S." <knitwork@redhotant.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Mark,

I have experienced the same problem on my 1270 with both the Ilford semi-mat
and the glossy. I have not found a cure for this problem yet. At first I
thought that the printer was simply laying down too much black ink in the
shadow areas, but as I have successfully printed some images with totally
black backgrounds, I am not so sure now.

The settings I have used are;

Epson 1270 Space
Backlit film
Photoshop Levels 10-255
-10 cyan
-10 magenta
saturation + 10
1440 dpi
HQ halftones

I have found these settings to give a very good printed match for my
monitor, but can't figure out what is causing the peculiarities in the dark
shadow areas.

Anna

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> From: owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com
> [mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]On Behalf Of Mark Graf
> Sent: 17 October 2000 2:43 pm
> To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
> Subject: Ilford Semi-matte strange blacks
>
>
> I recently began using Ilford Semi-matte paper on my 1270 given
> its reported orange plague resistance.  However, I am noticing a
> strange characteristic in the black areas of prints.  When
> looking at the print at various angles, the black areas have a
> splotchy iridescent pattern in them.  It isn't consistant
> thoughout the same print, and only seems to apply to the blacks.
>
> This was after the print had dried for about 8 hours.  I am using
> the Backlit film paper setting, CMY levels at -10, 1440 dpi / HQ
> halftones.
>
> Any experiences with this or how to resolve it?
>
> Mark
>
> www.grafphoto.com
>
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