Digital BW, The Print

Yes, I think that what you are missing is how SP does monochrome - and are instead trying to make it a glorified QTR system or a QTR with layout - which it is neither.

SP does not use "curves". It has an automatic profiler for up to seven shades of ink. You make a group of ink shades by specifying which ink slot is which shade, or / and which combination of ink slots is a shade.  Then you print out a target and measure - and the internal profiler organizes a "profile" it calls a "linearization".

So with SP - ALL INK POSSIBILITIES ARE OPEN, and only limited by your imagination. But only when you conceive of a group of ink shades being automatically profiles into a smooth tonal response.

You can create only one linearization at a time and use only one. You can not have a combination of linearizations printing at one time.

Let's say you used seven ink shades (like Piezography K7). SP can create a profile.

or

produce a quad black profile
or a profile based upon blending of inks (two sets of quads?)
or to split tone between two sets of quads, etc....

You can make a monochromatic linearization on from 2 to 7 shades of ink. The process is the same. Organizing the shades by ink slot, printing the target, measuring the target. Everything occurring within the standard SP software - your needing only an instrument such as an Eye One.

Hope that clarifies,

Jon Cone
Piezography

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "horstenj" <j.h.j.h@...> wrote:
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "piezobw" <jon@> wrote:
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> > You only need GPS with color inks. It is a color ICC profiler.
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> > I can only make profiles that are QTR compatible but not editable. I can't make profiles for StudioPrint - but I can make individual ink channels that take the place of profiles and I can run SP in up to 8 individual channels.
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> > But SP has a linearization function for up to seven shades of ink. They supported Piezography until Epson pulled the plug on that (X880 printers last supported Piezo models.)
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> > There are a total of seven shades of monochromatic ink that can be combined into a "profile". It is possible to combine up to three individual inks into one "shade" - its rich in terms of b&w.
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> Thanks again Jon,
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> Based on your comments I looked again to the studioprint options. To clarify: there seems to be NO possibility to import user curves per ink channel like one can in QTR.
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>  If that would be possible, one could make an own profiler/curve editing tool and all possible ink strategies would be open. But again, that seems not te be the case, right? Or am I missing something (which I hope)?
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