Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for the plug, Steve.

I'm a little reluctant to post sales-y come ons to come buy my product.
But the $50 is just a token amount, no way am I going to get rich on this.
The fee serves two purposes, one it's a vote of interest and satisfaction.
A lot of what I've done I did for my own printing, but making it so others
can use it probably has taken more time. So, why bother if no one cares?
The second purpose is to fund purchases.  I find it hard to justify
buying a printer, inks or whatever for other than my own use unless
there's some pay back.  Case in point, I do have a 4000 on order -- I'm not=

first on the list because I waffled a little trying to justify why I should=

buy another printer.

As far as the 7600 is concerned I have access to one with UC inks in it,
so I can profile those.  But seeing how its not mine and ink switches
are expensive and a hassle, I'm really not in a position to do a lot of
different inks.

I think Chip has a point about ready-to-use profile support.  But it does
seem like many at the high-end want to make custom profiles for
their specific printer, paper, ink etc.  I don't know how much these
things vary but if you start counting the combinations:
number of printers  X  number of possible inksets  X  number of papers,
there's no way anybody can cover them all.  

Thanks to all.
Regards,
Roy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@=
b...> 
wrote:
> I don¹t want to argue with you (I am essentially agreeing with you) but m=
y
> point is that the sooner Roy gets paid $50 a person (the current ³donatio=
n²
> for QTR) the more likely he will be able to get a broader array of profil=
es
> up for different machines.  I think QTR is fantastic and I have paid my $=
50.
> I encourage those that would like to use QTR or get additional QTR profil=
es
> prepared to pay $50 ­ if on spec.  Roy has an order in for a 4000 (I
> believe) and I am sure would love to have QTR earn him enough money to al=
so
> afford a 7600.  So pile on in and let¹s help him out!
> 
> (I would caution though that it is unrealistic to expect Roy to be able t=
o
> profile every possible ink set.  One of the beauties of QTR is that it is=

> infinitely flexible.  Others have the ability to profile as well and may
> kindly pitch in for various ink and printer combinations.  But the more
> people who pay the small amount Roy has asked then the more resources Roy=

> has to work with.  And also, I think you will find that if you can borrow=
 a
> photospectrometer (which may be a big if) then profiling is not as hard a=
s
> you might think.  I am not a technophile but am starting to get the hang =
of
> it with Roy and Carl¹s help.  I wish I had a 7600.  BTW, how do you
> calibrate your work or do you not do any colour work at all?)
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> From: "chipcarterdc" <chipcarterdc@h...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:49:37 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: BW inks for 7600
> 
> 
> "Then buy QTR and pay your $50...."
> 
> You miss my point.  I already have QTR.  What I don't have is the time,
> ability 
> or desire to learn how to use a spectrometer or whatever in order to use =
QTR
> to drive the Piezo or other grayscale inkset.  Not everyone will agree wi=
th
> my 
> perspective, of course, but I'm willing to bet there are a lot of
> photographers 
> who are not technophobes but are also not technophiles, and feel the same=

> way.
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