Digital BW, The Print

>[Paul wrote:]...
> 
> >So, I work in Gray Gamma 2.2 space and simply hit the "print" button to get to the print preview, pull up the QTR [ICC] that is for the printer, inkset and paper I'm using, and the print that comes out looks like what I anticipated as I edited the file.


"Mantinieri" <mantinieri@...> wrote:

> shouldn't you "convert to " your ICC before printing your
> GG2.2 file with QTR? 
> As far as I remember, QTR is not color managed and it 
> does not know which is your working space.
...



Yes, I have convert my files, but with a different procedure.  

QTR is not color managed, so a Gray Gamma 2.2 file needs some conversion before printing through QTR.

The seeming inconsistency is probably because I use 2 different printing workflows, both of which use programs in the QTR download.  

One of the workflows uses the "Rip" part of the QTR package, for example the 1800 "3-MK" and other "black only" workflows.  I use QTR when I'm printing on Arches because it can take a much higher black ink load than the Epson driver can deliver.


The other workflow uses an ICC made with "Create ICC-RGB" and prints through the Epson driver.  If the inkset is designed to be compatible with the Epson driver, this ICC workflow is, I believe, the easier one to start with.  

This was the context of the comment that I often simply print out of Photoshop with one of these ICC-Epson driver workflows.

Most of the inksets I've been associated with are, to some extent, Epson driver compatible.  It's a fast, easy way to print.  The ability to embed Photoshop curves into the ICC gives this workflow significant abilities to control how the inkset prints, but less than one gets with the rip part of QTR.

Paul
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