Digital BW, The Print

stopping short of more complicated setups, with all your good toys there I'd make carefully linearized and limited CMYK StudioPrint environments and full GCR CMYK Monaco profiles. Put your tints in the files in RGB, import and print from these StudioPrint/Monaco environments.
Never perfect, but has advantages over ABW.
Part of this is managing expectations, we were never in a position before digital to absolutely nail a preconceived hue, we had to accept something available from various product combinations, and it's still difficult in sensitive near neutrals with today's tools..
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "CelluloidPhotography" <eric_edmondson@...> wrote:
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> I've got a trusty old 9600 running selenium K7, and I do 99% of my b/w work on it.  When size, media, or tone call for it, I switch over the the 11880.  As I understand it, QTR is not an option for the machine, so I have been using ABW.  I have my papers profiled, and am reasonably happy with the results, in terms of a nice looking print anyway.  Where this workflow struggles is when someone comes in and wants me to match an existing print or tone.  Sometimes, messing around with the settings in ABW will eventually get me close enough to make do, but at the expense of a lot of paper and time (unless there is something I'm missing).  I know there are other people out there with this same problem, so I thought I'd see what their solution has been.  I'm running Studioprint and Monaco, so with the money I have sunk into that software, purchasing another $1000+ program isn't an option right now-- plus I can't imagine those two pieces of software not being able to accomplish what I want.  With older printers I could have told Studioprint to treat it as monochrome and just used the 3 blacks, but from what I heard, Epson essentially forced Ergosoft to lock that option out (besides that would only provide a solution for warm prints anyway).
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> So yeah, I'm just kinda curious to see what other 11880 wranglers are up to...
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> Thanks for any input!
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