Digital BW, The Print

Mike and Paul, Thanks for your helpful suggestions!
I will try both the sepia and original mis hextone
sets and see what works best....

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Michael Kravit" 
<michael.kravit@w...> wrote:
> Interesting, on my 1280 I get beautiful consistent
> prints with all 4  of the curves. What paper are you
> using? I do not have any color crossover with the
> toner whatsoever.

I have printed scales on both somerset pe and museo
with Paul's original vm curves on my 1280 (using the
recommended color space and print settings).

Here is what I see:
 - Best results are with the neutral and medium warm
   curves, but all show some banding -- mostly in the
   midtone areas. (The warm curve produces a fairly
   distinct dark band right around 60%.) Smoothest
   scale is on somerset pe medium-warm.
 - In all cases there is some mottling in the 60%
   neighborhood (worse on somerset paper).

Now that I think about it, the crossover problems
I mentioned earlier came about using my own curves
as I was trying to fix artifacts noted above. So
that's my own fault.

The best way I have found to see how well things are
working is to print a (~1.5inch diameter) radial
gradient. If there are any nonlinearities, they will
show up as light or dark rings. I don't know if it's
because I'm extra picky or my printer is out of spec
(or just bad karma), but I will try some other ink
setups and see what works best....

Best regards,
 -Mark Goudy