Digital BW, The Print

There are now quite a few different solutions to printing B&W with the
new 7 ink Ultrachrome printers.  Most of the products only run on 
certain machines (Mac or Windows) with certain operating systems,
or only support some of the printers.

For Macs running OS X, QuadToneRIP will drive all of the Ultrachrome
printers, minimizing metamerism, and giving you a selectable warm to cool
tone grayscale.

See my website for links to QuadToneRIP information.  

Roy Harrington
www.harrington.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Robert Morrison 
<rmorrison@p...> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip...in my book that make IP useless for BW for  
> anything other than commercial work...there is no detail between 95 and  
> 100% and very little between 90 and 95% in the standard profiles.  In a  
> supposedly color managed environment, I'm not willing to edit files for  
> a profile...particularly when the profile is so bad.  It just seems  
> incredible to me that they won't do anything about this...and I've told  
> them plenty of times.
> 
> Regardless it seems that Studioprint is a better option for large  
> format printers and IJC/OPM does a great job on BW for the desktop (and  
> some wideformat) printers.  I still use IP...but only for color  
> work...its great for that with the free profiling.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 09:10 AM, Jean-Pierre Verbeke wrote:
> 
> > I'm using IP 5.6. The shaduw adjusting feature only works with RGB  
> > files,
> > not with Gray Gamma 2.2 files which in return gives deeper blacks (same
> > gradation as viewed in Photoshop) when used with IP gray profiles.
> >
> >
> > Jean-Pierre Verbeke
> >
> > India jan 01: Maha Kumbh Mela
> > http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=161965
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Morrison" <rmorrison@p...>
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Image Print
> >
> >
> >> If you didn't get it in your demo...make sure you are using IP 5.6.   
> >> It
> >> has the new feature to be able to adjust shadow detail.  Haven't tried
> >> it yet...but this is one thing that IP BW output definitely needed
> >> because shadows were compressed in the normal profiles.
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >>
> >> On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 05:26 AM, Steven Schaefer wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I've installed Image Print on my Mac, and have been using it to print
> >>> color with my 2200. The color prints look good and I am starting to
> >>> become familiar with the software.
> >>>
> >>> This weekend, I am planning to try to print my first BW photos with
> >>> this
> >>> printer software combination, any suggestions, warnings, or guidance,
> >>> would be greatly appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> Steve
> >>>