Digital BW, The Print

I am using QTR on Mac OSX with UT7 inks.

I created my own Cool and Sepia curves for HPR and mix them 50-50 for a 
Neutral Print.

I am very happy with the results and have produced a couple hundred 
prints this way for customers since August.

I have been using UC inks in a 2200 with QTR during the same period.

The 2200/UC combo is nice and indeed neutral with no meteramism, but 
much more visible dithering.

The UT7 inkset is very nice, but still has some barely visible 
dithering near the 10-20% tones.

Overall I was more impressed with the original UT inkset I experimented 
with in the spring since it provided 4 neutral inks to partition the 
Grey rather than the 3 greys of the UT7 inks.

I have been considering going back to using Piezotone inks in the 7600. 
Museum or Portfolio Black with both the Carbon Sepia and Selenium set. 
I am just unsure that a mix of the two would yield a nice neutral and I 
don't want to mess up a system that finally seems to be working well.

The process of creating your own curves for QTR is not exactly simple, 
but it isn't brain surgery either. The documentation is accurate, but 
easy to misinterpret. Trust me, read it all through several times and 
ask lots of questions on-line before proceeding and wasting a lot of 
time and materials.

Good luck.

James Haney



On Dec 16, 2004, at 5:34 PM, sandersm@... wrote:

>
> Greetings, all.
>
> I've been printing happily with a 7600 and the Epson UC inkset, using 
> QTR on
> a Mac.   After reading the recent chatter here about Paul Roark's 
> experience
> with Semi-Matte paper and the UT inkset, it got me to rethink whether 
> I should
> revisit my paper choice.
>
> To Roy Harrington, and Paul, and others using the UT inkset on a 7600: 
>   Is
> it possible to control the 7600 with QTR when using the UT7 inkset?   
> I have
> come to love QTR's ability to tone prints by mixing warm and cool 
> curves in the
> RIP.
>
> If QTR will not work with a 7600 running UT7 inks, then how does one 
> control
> image tone with this printer and ink combination?
>
> Thanks in advance to all who help.
>
> Sanders McNew
> www.mcnew.net
>
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