Digital BW, The Print

Hi all,
I'm a newbie here,  
I want to know if it is possible to obtain good B&W photo using Quadtone 
Inks on Epson 1160 and Epson Driver,using 'No Curve Control' software 
just like ACDSee or other simple software ?
As I notice most of you using PS with built-in 'quadtone' option and many 
other controling tools.
Thanks !

Harry

Try Qimage from ddisoftware.com. It was developed for printing.

Seth

=-----Original Message-----
=From: Vincent [mailto:hwa27@...] 
=Sent: Friday, 23 May, 2003 04:27
=To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
=Subject: [Digital BW] Using Quadtone Inks on Non Photoshop software
=
=
=Hi all,
=I'm a newbie here,  
=I want to know if it is possible to obtain good B&W photo 
=using Quadtone 
=Inks on Epson 1160 and Epson Driver,using 'No Curve Control' software 
=just like ACDSee or other simple software ?
=As I notice most of you using PS with built-in 'quadtone' 
=option and many 
=other controling tools.
=Thanks !
=
=Harry 
=
=
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Harry:

Short answer is that if you want to use the Epson driver to print 
quadtones with your 1160 you will need to be able to apply a single 
curve (lumped/non-partitioned workflow) or a curve set (RGB 
partitioned workflow).  The partitioned workflow converts the 
grayscale image into various shades of CMY thus "tricking" the Epson 
driver into thinking it is printing CMYB.

There are many lower cost image editors that will allow you to apply 
a "canned" curve or curveset other than PS.  I personally use Picture 
Windows Pro ($90) from www.dl-c.com .  

Jeff Randall



 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Vincent" 
<hwa27@t...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm a newbie here,  
> I want to know if it is possible to obtain good B&W photo using 
Quadtone 
> Inks on Epson 1160 and Epson Driver,using 'No Curve Control' 
software 
> just like ACDSee or other simple software ?
> As I notice most of you using PS with built-in 'quadtone' option 
and many 

> other controling tools.
> Thanks !
> 
> Harry