Digital BW, The Print

Sounds encouraging.  At least I know it is possible! Unfortunately, I 
am on a PC so the QTR stuff won't help me much.  For reference, my 
settings are Profile: Custom Dot gain, intent: relative colormetric, 
paper: enhanced matte, gamma 1.8 (could this be it?), mode: 
photorealistic--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
Carl Schofield <scho@m...> wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> What method are you using to print with the UT inks in the 2200?  
I'm 
> using QTR with the UT inks in my 2200 and don't have a problem with 
> blocked shadows.  Here are some density measurements for the UT 
inks in 
> that range on EEM:
> 95% - 1.49
> 96% - 1.52
> 97% - 1.55
> 98% - 1.60
> 99% - 1.64
> 100% - 1.69
> 
> There are some QTR profiles for the UT inks in the 2200 Ultratone 
> Profiles.sit file, in the QuadToneRIP 2.0 folder on my filesharing 
site 
> if you want to try them:
> http://homepage.mac.com/scho/FileSharing2.html
> 
> Carl
> On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 09:49  AM, markjamesfisher wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying (desparately) to get decent separation in the 95% 
range of
> > blacks.  I've tweaked my custom dot gain without much to show for
> > it.  The shadows seem to block up on the print at 95-97% on up no
> > matter what I do.  Is there another way to deal with this?  Is
> > another inkset the only answer?  Or do I simply need to accept 
this
> > and move on?  Or do I worry too much (:
> >
> > Thanks -- Mark
> >