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Re: [Digital BW] UT14 Tone Shift

2015-03-04 by homershannon@...

It's definitely not the glop as that is one of the inks that was not low and I did not fill it. The more I look as test prints, the more I think I'm tilting at windmills. There is a difference, but I don't know if it is worth chasing.

The silver lining in this is that I went back and re-read the Tom Moore instructions for QTR and finally made sense of it. I've created a .qdif file for the cyan and light cyan channels in the UT14 ink set and it prints a very neutral tone on RR Ultrapro Satin. It would probably be cool on Arctic Polar glosss, but I'm out of that right now so I can't be sure. I also made a curve for the magenta and light magenta channels and that prints well also, though more brown than I would normally use.

Between the QTR-cyan, .acv curves for neutral and warm, plus the QTR-magenta, I have full range of tones for glossy paper.

Sometimes I think I spend more time and supplies creating curves and working on technique than I do creating prints, but hey, it's all a learning experience.

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