Re: Text on Epsons
Re: Text on Epsons
- Subject: Re: Text on Epsons
- From: Thomas Holm/pixl <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:09:59 +0100
On 18/02/2009, at 21.16, Rick Kortemeier wrote:
Hey Brainiacs....
We run GMG thru some older 9600 Epsons at 720 dpi and our text and
illustrations come out considerably thicker on our proofs than on
our press sheets. I have tried running 1440 dpi ( slightly
better.... but nothing to right home to ma about :-) I have also
played around with sharpening in GMG to little avail. The pdf's are
coming from Prinergy. Is there some bell or whistle I am missing to
rectify this?
Let Prinergy rip to 720DPI (supposing you are outputting Tiff) and
probably no (or a very low) Anti-alising and set print mode to 1440
dpi. If you output PDF's from prinergy you need to det the GMG
Ripserver to Rip 720 with no anti aliasing and tiff LZW.
If you do dotproof the only thing you have to play with is the "fast
dotproof" check box. Resolution is simply too low to dotproof anything
above 120-130 lpi on the 9600.
Text will still be thicker than on press but this will get you as
close as possible. The main problem is that the Epson really is
printing at 720 dpi, or even a bot lower in reality (from memory there
is only 360 printheads per inch) so there is only so much you can do.
You will get much finer text on a HP z2100 - worth considering when
you need to upgrade the printer eventually.
Best Regards
Thomas Holm / Pixl Aps
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