Digital BW, The Print

I printed off another Ink Separation page in QTR's calibrate mode.  This
time, I centered the image and used the "scale to fit" box.  This gave
bigger squares to measure.  After hair drying for 5 minutes, the highest
density square for the Arches read 1.70, quite a jump.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:11 PM, pdesmidt tds.net <pdesmidt@...> wrote:

> It took awhile, but I was finally able to get my 7600 working with my
> Windows 7-64 computer.  I've only installed the Eboni cartridge, as I'm
> waiting for some replacement cartridges. (The other spots have cleaning
> fluid in them.)
>
> I printed out the QTR calibration page on Arches and HPR.  The prints
> air-dried for an hour or so, and then I hit them with a hair dryer for
> about 5 minutes.  I believe the dmax of the Arches should increase over
> night.
>
> I used a Spyder Print spectro to measure densities, using a piece of
> natural white mat board under the print.
>
> The Eboni + Arches yielded a max density of 1.57.
> The Eboni + HPR yielded a max density of 1.62.
>


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