James Terry
03-20-2011, 8:35 PM
I have recently began exploring sending 1 bit images to the laser machine. Following tutorials and whatnot for converting photos down, I get what I want for the image and have made sure that it is simply white and black.
The jobs fail where the machine simply etches a box as if it were all black.
I know that my machine fails with CMYK, so I force everything to RGB. I dont think that is the issue here. I have sent the image as no color and black, I have tried printing through the driver as B&W (which will dither) or Manual Color Fill (which will color map).
The image works if I print it in color or grayscale using B&W mode in the driver, but the second I try to send 1 bit, it fails.
Is this my machine complaining that I am not sending RGB or grayscale? Do I need to convert the 1bit dot patterned image back to grayscale or perhaps even to vector? I am trying to find the magic that allows me to control the dithering process and the driver does nothing. So I think the print driver needs to be in Manual Color Fill mode for that to work right and I'm not sure what that does to a grayscale monochrome image.
I suspect I need to go waste some more wood and find out.
The jobs fail where the machine simply etches a box as if it were all black.
I know that my machine fails with CMYK, so I force everything to RGB. I dont think that is the issue here. I have sent the image as no color and black, I have tried printing through the driver as B&W (which will dither) or Manual Color Fill (which will color map).
The image works if I print it in color or grayscale using B&W mode in the driver, but the second I try to send 1 bit, it fails.
Is this my machine complaining that I am not sending RGB or grayscale? Do I need to convert the 1bit dot patterned image back to grayscale or perhaps even to vector? I am trying to find the magic that allows me to control the dithering process and the driver does nothing. So I think the print driver needs to be in Manual Color Fill mode for that to work right and I'm not sure what that does to a grayscale monochrome image.
I suspect I need to go waste some more wood and find out.