Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Dragonfly Imaging & Printing 
<dragonfly.printing@s...> wrote:
> Hi Roy,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I didn't make my question clearer. I'll 
> try again. First, a bit of background info.
> 
> Your QTR is a wonderful product to use with the 9600 and UC inks. I 
> tried it, and also made the soft-proof profiles.
> 
> Our present workflow, and custom profiles, are based on the epson 
> driver. Since GIMP and epson don't play well, I had to remove QTR to 
> use the epson driver again.

The only difficulty that I know of is to make sure you are running the
right driver -- Epson for color, QTR for B&W.  You mention communications
errors in you other post.  I don't know of anything that would case this
unless you are trying to do both drivers simultaneously -- i.e. have
prints spooled in both drivers at the same time.

If you have any difficulty getting both drivers setup.  Do the Epson
driver first -- it should be called Stylus Pro 9600.  Then install QTR
running the Install9600 script.  This sets up a Quad9600 printer.
From then on its just a matter of selecting a Printer in the Print
dialogs.

> 
> Finally my question ;-)
> 
> Is there a way to build a custom grayscale printer profile using the 
> epson driver?

Sorry, but I just don't get it.  You can create ICC RGB profiles for the
epson driver, and you can create QTR profiles for QTR.  But they are
totally different and worthless to mix them.  The only answer seems
to be, no.

> Or, would it be better to switch all printing, Color and B&W, to QTR?

I wouldn't recommend QTR drivers for color.  But it is possible, you
would need new color profiles but I haven't tried it at all.

Roy


> 
> Thanks again, John
> 
> On Apr 22, 2004, at 11:33 PM, Roy Harrington wrote:
> 
> >
> > John,
> >
> > I might not be getting your question, but if you have a GS file
> > and print to the Epson driver you're probably already printing
> > through some profile.  I would think you could soft-proof through
> > that.   Of course you could go through the soft-proof steps I
> > have and create a soft-proof only profile.  Remember that proofing
> > is then only as good as the monitor profile you are using.  The
> > whole color managed workflow is only as good as the weakest link.
> >
> > Roy
> >
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Dragonfly Imaging 
> > & Printing
> > <dragonfly.printing@s...> wrote:
> >> I also tried Roy's methodology for using the eye-one to create
> >> soft-proof profiles with a 9600. It really worked with QTR.
> >>
> >> A further question Roy. Why can't I make a grayscale profile to use
> >> with the epson driver?
> >> Say I have a system, not running QTR.
> >>
> >> John Toles
> >> http://www.dragonflyprinting.com/
> >> http://www.dragonflygallery.ca/