Digital BW, The Print

Maybe this will give you an idea of what can be done in SP - here are some of the ways I use it.

On a seven ink printer like the x600 I can obviously run K7 inks - but also its easy to run two of the Piezography PiezoTone ink sets because they are quads. So I only need to use one black which they can share - then a L,M, & D gray of say Carbon Sepia and Selenium Tone.  SP allows me to linearize each separately - or linearize a blend of the two - or to split tone from one to the other - or to split and blend...  linerization is their term for a set of curves.

On 8 ink printers like the x800 and x880 you could do the same, or expand into a neutral highlight or an additional tone modulator - SP allows you to blend 3 inks in one shade position if you wish...  run a modified K7 system...  some are running Glossy systems with it on the X800 and X880s. We use QTR for our glossy work.

On the Rolands, with SP D'Vinici I can split each head into two inks. So on my SJ I have 12 separate inks which I can do unlimited things with.

So SP is more than a layout program - it has some enormous flexibility if you work with monochromatic inks.

I prefer my profiler to the SP profiler so we use QTR for work which needs to have the most detail and smoothness - but I use SP when I want to be ink imaginative - as its quicker and easier than mapping it out in QTR - which I eventually am inclined to do so I can make my own curves architecture.

I see room for both QTR and SP.

regards,

Jon Cone
Piezography

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "horstenj" <j.h.j.h@...> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> I'm a long time user of QTR (on windows) and I'm still very happy with it. That is, for fine art printing. For more production-type of printing I regularly miss some options that other RIPs do provide so I'm looking around. 
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> I'm aware that some of you use StudioPrint, as I understand mostly with Cone inks since Jon Cone provides SP profiles with his inks. But does StudioPrint provide the same flexibility with custom BW ink sets as QTR does? 
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> I've installed the StudioPrint demo version, but do not see a way to get this done. One can define a multi-gray ink setup but I can't figure out if one also can e.g. add toner curves or use dual Eb-HP-PK just as QTR does.
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> Frankly, I would already be happy if I could just load data tables per curves. Then I could create curves in Excel and import them into StudioPrint. Is that possible? Is then StudioPrint sufficient or would I need ColorGPS as well (adding a significant amount to the bill)?
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> Joost
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