Digital BW, The Print

>  Bill Kennedy started working with K7 on a 2200 early on and he  
> said he had much better results with the Bauhaus rip.

We just spent the last two weeks bringing up a 7600 with K7 split  
tones using BowHaus IJC/OPM.  The standard K7 Split-Tone Sepia  
shadows/Neutral highlights and also Neutral shadows/Sepia  
highlights.  Great RIP.  Great inks.

Scott King
K2 Press
Austin, Texas


On Nov 25, 2006, at 7:25 PM, john dean wrote:

>
> I was using the curves supplied with QTR, the ones made
> > by Jon's studio, so the it shouldn't have been my incompetence in
> making curves that
> > caused the problems.
>
> -------------------------
>
> That was very interesting Mark and I appreciate the feed back. I
> haven't talked to anyone doing exactly this, though I know a lot of
> people must be.
>
> It isn't a problem with your incompetence because you sound
> experienced. I believe the problem is the variation in the older
> printers. The supplied curves with the 7000 were ok, but not great for
> me. Everything was a bit flat with them. I was just about to set it up
> with Studio Print too. However, I talked to Roy and then my 7000 was
> linearized using icc create and custom curves for MY machine and a few
> papers. When I did this it was a totally different output. This should
> be done with any printers but these 7000's just vary so much that this
> is totally mandatory. I belive Jon found that out with the 1280's too
> which is why they started that IQuad thing making people custom  
> curves.
>
> Surely you are making custom linearizations and reading all the
> patches with Studio Print? If so that is what the difference is I'm
> sure. The newer printers like the 2200 and the 9600 are very close but
> not perfect. They should be custom linearized too. The 10K's are very
> different from unit to unit. It's funny though. Some people have
> better luck with different rips on different machines. Bill Kennedy
> started working with K7 on a 2200 early on and he said he had much
> better results with the Bauhaus rip. Whatever works is is whatever
> works I guess.
>
> John
>
>
> 



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