Digital BW, The Print

don
there isn't a FAQ that i know of but here is a couple
o' pointers

MIS-one of major players in 3rd party ink development
for b&w printing. Piezotone would be another. Sundance
is another, and Lyson is another. On this forum you
will find lots of MIS ink users and a good amount of
Piezo ink users. Sundance has a new system that is
still being explored and Lyson probably brings up the
rear.

UT-ultratone. this is the newest pigment based ink
from MIS and primarily developed by list guru, Paul
Roark. very stable ink. variable tones from wrm to
cool with this inkset.

VM-this is an older variable tone ink from MIS. still
available, but most people are converting to UT.

RIP-raster image processor. a RIP basically chews up
all you image info and spits it back out to a printer
so it can print. there are many kinds of RIPs out
there and many opinions on which ones do this or that
better. RIPs are essential for printing from vector
based programs, such as Illustrator or Freehand.

QTR-quadtone RIP, a black and white print driver
developed for free for Mac OSX and Linux by Roy
Harrington another active list member. Its an exiting
development in b&w printing. It is an addendum to
GIMP-PRINT a free unix based printer driver.

IJC/OPM-Ink jet control/open print maker. pretty much
the same concept as QTR for Mac system 9. Its a little
prettier to look at than QTR. apparently its being
upgraded for OSX, I think I read that its in beta now.
OPM the actual printing part of the suite is free, IJC
is $200 but allows one to profile any ink/paper combo.
QTR does this too, it just takes some thought and time
to dig in and do it.

IP/IP5-Imageprint. this is a RIP with a solid crew of
supporters that prints color and b&w. Its primary
appeal to b&w printers comes from the Epson
2200/7600/9600 camp who want to use the Epson
Ultrachrome inks to print b&w prints which do not
suffer from metamerism. Metamerism is the evil beast
that does not allow on to print acceptable b&w "out of
the box" with Epson Ultrachrome printers. Basically
metamerism is when the colors of a print shift under
different lighting sources. For example a typical
black and white print from a 2200 will look neutral or
magentaish under tungtsten light, blueish under
daylight, and greenish under fluorescent light. Its
not subtle, its bad and unacceptable. IP,QTR,OP are
among the many solutions around this problem. IP
differs in that it also prints color and it costs
$500.

Okay there is a quick and dirty on the lingo.
right on
john e

--- Don <elixirs4me@...> wrote:
> Been enjoying this list for the past few weeks.  I
> own a 2200 and am 
> very interested in improving my B&W printing.
> 
> I am a little frustrated by some of the terms used
> here...
> 
> MIS, UT, OTR, QTR, VM, IP5.  Etc.
> 
> Some of them I have figured out (EEM and PR!) but
> some still have me 
> stumped.
> 
> Is there an FAQ to read which may explain all this? 
> I looked in the 
> Files section but a lot of stuff there seems a
> little dated.
> 
> Also on another note.  Does anybody have some
> favorite links or 
> lists or sites to visit concerning Black and White
> developing, 
> scanning etc?  I would be most appreciative of any
> info in this area 
> too.  Thanks everybody.  Back to lurking and trying
> to scan better 
> with my 2450..... ;-)
> 
> Ol' Don in Broken Arrow
> 
> 

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