Digital BW, The Print

Hi Les,

Paul just wrote up a good, concise procedure for calibrating a set of Eboni
inks with QTR (posted March 22):

Paul roark.paul@...
via<http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=1311182>
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Mar 22 (3 days ago)

to DigitalBlackan.

As I mentioned in the "Blacks, EB6 and Epson driver" thread, above, I used
a flatbed scanner to profile Red River Polar Matte for QTR.  I've
documented the procedure and results at
http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/QTR-Flatbed.pdf .  Hopefully this plus
Roy's StepWedge Tool (at http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRdownload.html )
 will help those with flatbeds and no spectros.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>

I used much the same procedure to calibrate a 7-shade printer a few weeks
ago (with my own choices for dilutions). My personal experience suggests to
me that the next time I mix up a batch of inks I'll increase the dilution
for most of the shades; the system seems robust enough to handle this kind
of tinkering. Between Paul's years of experimenting and writing and Roy
Harrington's software, this is a pretty capable system.

Pete

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Leslie <lestihor@...> wrote:

> Thanks Pete,
>
> I've looked at Paul's great website and I would like to use his guidelines
> for saving ink costs by diluting my own inks for the 8 positions on the
> 3800, but I can't find a recipe for dilution for an 8 ink machine. I've
> also found Jon Cone's inksets and they look fine, except they are quite
> expensive to use over the long term on a retirement pension.
>
> Les
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Pete Bergstrom
> <petebergstrom@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Les,
> >
> > Can you add details about what you mean by asking for a recipe?
> >
> > If you are looking for general information, I started down this path a
> > couple of years ago and it has been going well. In my opinion, the best
> two
> > resources for this are:
> >
> >     http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/ which has a wealth of information
> > about Eboni printing for several models of Epson printers and which
> > shouldn't be hard to translate to your situation.
> >
> >     http://www.piezography.com/PiezoPress/ which has a turnkey solution
> for
> > monochrome printing that, in my experience, drops in and works.
> >
> > Best,
> > Pete
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Leslie <lestihor@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone have recipes for printing Ebony-type carbon based prints
> on an
> > > Epson 3800, either using an RIP or the epson B&W driver? Thanks.
> > >
> > > Les
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
>
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