Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Roy,

You answered what I needed to know. Epson driver for color, QTR for B&W.

I did use your suggested method for adding the epson driver, then add 
the QTR printer. QTR worked fine, but not the epson driver. Maybe the 
new epson file, which Carl suggested, might help this.

Cheers, John

On Apr 23, 2004, at 12:18 PM, Roy Harrington wrote:

> --- 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