Digital BW, The Print

I do use a mac, luckily, and am running 10.2.8
I am thrilled with all of this advice and my clients
will be too, as I've promised I can print black and
white! although I do have to admit, I don't know all
of the terminology. What is a BO, MK, PK? And the QTR
is only 50$ So much less? And where can I purchase the
UC inks(that is ultra chrome, right?)...  Thank you so
much!! I will catch on. promise!
Julie  

--- Steve Kale <stevekale@...> wrote:
> I am going to retract my statement below about there
> being limited
> differences between the hues of BO MK and PK prints.
>  (It seems I must have
> badly labelled some test prints I did!)  BUT I don\ufffdt
> get brown prints with
> PK either!.  Take a look at the following page for
> the same image printed
> with QTR 50:50 cool:warm, BO with Epson Ultrachrome
> MK and BO Epson
> Ultrachrome PK.  The scans were done at 360ppi (same
> as the original psd
> image), Adobe RBG 1998, without colour correction
> with my (crappy) Epson
> Perfection 2450 (no sharpening at print nor scan). 
> I think they are good
> enough to show the differences in hue and even
> smoothness.  If you click on
> a thumbnail it will bring up a slide show.  If you
> click on an image in the
> slide show, it will bring the image in full size.
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/stevekale/PhotoAlbum11.html
> 
> If anything I get a very slight purple tint with the
> PK \ufffd I assure you it is
> BO.  Note that this is PK purchased in Europe.  I
> think Carl Schofield once
> posted a link to a BO image with PK on EPSG (I could
> not find the link
> again) which had a definite brown hue.  Could it be
> that PK Europe is
> different from PK US?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 
> PS I have not measured the dMaxs of the prints but
> as a quick relative
> measure if I take each scan\ufffds mode to Grayscale, the
> K% (from the info
> palette in PS) of each image\ufffds top left corner are:
> original 100%, QTR EEM
> 87/88%, BO MK EPSG 89/90%, and BO PK EPSG 92/93%.
> 
> 
> From: Steve Kale <stevekale@...>
> Reply-To:
> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:49:07 +0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson 2200- need to print
> black and white..
> 
> Julie
> 
> I have an Epson 2100/2200 and have stuck with the
> Epson UC inks thus far.  I
> use Roy Harrington\ufffds Quadtone RIP and Carl
> Schofield\ufffds 2200 curves.  QTR
> requires a Mac (or Linux).  I don\ufffdt believe you
> mentioned what OS you are
> using. If you are using a Mac you should definitely
> give QTR a go (shareware
> $50).  Here are some links:
> 
> http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html
> 
>
http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/2/wo/CT12ss5AMqT2P2ZI.1/0
>
.2.1.2.22.31.97.4.35.0.1.1.1?user=scho&fpath=QuadToneRIP%202.0&templatefn=Fi
> leSharing2.html
> 
> (copy and paste the entire link into your browser)
> 
> You will be staggered at the QTR difference vs using
> Epson colour profiles.
> In relation to Black Only printing, I can also
> recommend using the Matt
> Black ink on a variety of matt papers (EEM, HPR,
> EVFA...).  I have also used
> the Photo Black (in BO mode) on Epson Premium
> Semi-Gloss and found that it
> has pretty much exactly the same hue \ufffd to my eye \ufffd
> as the Matt Black on the
> same paper....I am now looking at two prints of the
> same image, one with MK
> and the other with PK (each on EPSG) and it is
> extremely difficult to tell
> them apart \ufffd and neither are brown.  However, even
> after spraying with Lyson
> Print Guard, the matt ink print will smudge so stick
> with the PK.
> 
> If you are interested in better colour profiles, I
> have made profiles for my
> printer using Gretag MacBeth Eye One Photo and would
> be happy to share these
> profiles with you (I have HPR, EEM and EPSG so far).
>  Each profile is
> calculated after drying and then spraying the print
> with three coats of
> Lyson Print Guard.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> From: "jsstapen" <jsstapen@...>
> Reply-To:
> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:35:21 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Epson 2200- need to print
> black and white..
> 
> I am having problems printing black and white with
> my epson 2200. When
> I set the printer to color ink, the print comes out
> bluish and set to
> only black ink, the print comes out brownish. I was
> told to always set
> the paper to bright white watercolor, this helps a
> little, but then
> the print is slightly bluish-greenish???? It's
> imperative that I print
> black an white without these others tones. Please
> help! Any advice is
> greatly appreciated.
> Thank You
> 
> 
> 
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