I'm suddenly having issues with the printing of shadow detail. It started when I tried to build a custom profile for a new paper. I was wasting many sheets of paper trying the get the PDI test image to print "right." Everything that is a midtone or a highlight seems to be fine, but as soon as the colors starting moving toward shadow, all kinds of crazy happens. The shadows look almost posterized.
I thought that maybe I had a setting wrong in PS CS2 or messed up in scanning the calibration target. After agonizing over it for a while, I grabbed an older print of the calibration target. The target (from Colorvision ProfilerPlus) is a square with 3x3 blocks of color that are each broken down into smaller blocks 9x9. I noticed that on all the new prints the column of small blocks in the darker/shadow area of each larger block stood out. These columns look lighter because they have a lot more yellow in them that my older "correct" print shows. I'm not sure why this is happening. I even printed the target from MS Painter to make sure it wasn't a Photoshop problem. I got the same results. I probably did a lousy job explaining the problem so if you have any questions please email me or reply here. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. I'm one frustrated puppy right now. Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPDesignJet_Printers Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPDesignJet_Printers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPDesignJet_Printers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
