Digital BW, The Print

Roy: that's good to know.  The problem of course is that many of us (well, 
maybe just me) don't have the technical expertise or equipment to be using 
these highly technocal tools  (I don't even know what an Eye-One is) to create 
our own profiles.  And, no offense intended to anyone, I personally have no 
interest in such technical proficiency -- I mean, I'm not a really "techie" kinda 
guy -- just a photographer.  Maybe it's just laziness or intimidation, but I kind of 
think of it like in the wet darkroom -- many people swear that ultimate quality is 
only obtainable by mixing your own developer and coating your own paper 
and negatives.  That may or may not be true, but it just wasn't something that 
appealed to me.

None of this is Roy's problem - he's designed a very flexible tool.  But it still 
leaves me in a bind.  What really needs to happen from my perspective is that 
everyone needs to kick in some $ to buy Roy a 7600, a bunch of grayscale 
inks and various papers so that he can use his technical expertise to benefit 
us all and design a whole buncha curves.  Oh, and we need to get Paul a 
7600 too, so he can get the UT7 inkset up and running sooner.  :-)

I'm actually only half-joking about the statement above.  I mean, think about it: 
I may one day pay Colorbyte $2500 for ImagePrint for the 9600 so that they 
can worry about and develop the technical stuff and I can just make prints.  If 
I'm willing to do that, it's not much of a leap to fund Paul or Roy.  (Just for the 
record, I'm not giving either of you $2500 on spec.  :-) ) But would I send Roy 
or Paul $100 to profile an inkset/paper combo for grayscale inks?  Sure.  And 
if 50 people did that....


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" <
roy@h...> wrote:
> 
> As Tyler said, QTR has all the control for any ink set.  There aren't any
> existing profiles for the piezotone ink set.  However, with a good measuring
> device such as an Eye-One it is quite easy to support anything you want.  
>