Choosing the printer for digital negatives: Epson or Canon?

[Patrick Robert James]

You can try using PrintTool which is free to try for a month. I can get denser negs when I need to with it.

You aren't stating what settings you are using with the transparency film. The "paper type" affects the amount of ink laid down.

 

[MarcoA]

I don't understand; you said you get 3.0logD but at the same time you don't get beyond 1.4logD....under which conditions did you get the high density? Why not print the calibration table ("step wedge") with the same approach?

I wrote "The step-wedge reaches D=3.06.". That is, step #31 reads 3.06.

 

[MarcoA]

You can try using PrintTool which is free to try for a month. I can get denser negs when I need to with it.

You aren't stating what settings you are using with the transparency film. The "paper type" affects the amount of ink laid down.

The PrintTool part of the QTR package? Do you use it with a Canon printer?

The next step will be to set different paper types before printing the OHP. Indeed, with the Canon 1100 this is the only way to control the quantity of ink being deposited. I will have to thread carefully though, the problem is pooling. Last thing I need is to flood the head.

Finding information on the 1100 on what "ink limit" goes with which paper type isn't particularly straightforward though.