Digital BW, The Print

Michael,

If you don't have the ability to create your own profiles using QTR-create-icc, then you 
need to be using Grey gamma 2.2 as your working space, and print with no color 
management from PS.  If you have a densitometer or spectrophotometer, I HIGHLY 
recommend using the IJM supplied curve for linearization, and then make your own 
profiles.

Good luck.

Josh


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Michael Vendrell 
<mjvendrell2@y...> wrote:
>
> ALL: I just loaded Piezo NK7's into my 2200 and
> printed an old standby scanned negative with a full
> range of tones including many dark grays.  Using the
> QTR HPR 2880 NK7 curves and QTR the print was very
> much lighter overall than same on 220 UTR2W with Paul
> Roark's gamma 2.2 curve with the Epson driver; or C86
> with EZW and Paul Roark's recommended settings in the
> Epson driver.  All were sent with a gamma 2.2 profile
> embedded - psd's for the 220 and C86 and tiff for the
> QTR.  The R220 and C86 prints are very similar except
> the C86 is noticeably warmer - but the densities are
> quite similar. In order to get the NK7 on the 2200 to
> match the other two in overall density, I had to place
> the ink limit slider in QTR at +35 and the gamma
> slider to +15.
> 
> BTW, on HPR the NK7 is less warm yet (near neutral to
> my eye) than the R220 with the UTR2Warm and much
> cooler than the C86 with EZWarm.  For this image I
> prefer the somewhat warm R220 Warm set  - but such
> things are, of course, a matter of taste.
> 
> The Piezo NK7 is indeed very smooth, although to my
> eye it lacks a bit of "punch" relative to the other
> two and the d-max is less even with the +35 ink limit
> setting.
> 
> Am I missing something, or do I have some setting
> wrong in the QTR for the NK7's in the 2200, such that
> I must almost max out the ink limits and density to
> get a WYSIWYG with this system? The WYSIWYG with the
> other two systems is quite close even though I have
> only calibrated my monitor visually with the Adobe
> gamma loader. Any thoughts and advice would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Michael Vendrell, MD.
> 
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