Digital BW, The Print

When I bought piezo, they did not have the ICC thing, it was still with the PS plug-in. 
Never could get any consistancy with it. The so-called profiles that shipped with it were 
useless for me, not linear at all.

I started to be satisfied when I dumped that plug-in and started to use QuadToneRIP. With 
QTR and a little work, I have quickly achieved a much better profiling of the ink/paper 
combos.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Benjamin C. Pierce" 
<bcpierce@c...> wrote:
> I've got a 1280 loaded with a set of the new piezo inks, which I have
> never been able to use because (like quite a few others) I have been
> consistently unable to get an even 21-step wedge out of it using the new
> ICC profiles.  After quite a bit of fruitless fiddling followed by
> months of waiting for good news from others who had had the same
> problems (and working on color printing in the meantime), I have pretty
> much given up on this setup.  However, I do want to get back to some
> black and white, so I am wondering if there is any easy way to use these
> inks -- which have given me beautiful results in the past, using the
> clunky old piezography plugin -- with different software.
> 
> My computer is a Mac running OSX 10.2.8.  So, from what I've seen on
> this group, it seems one next step might be QTR.  But a quick scan of
> the web site didn't turn up any profiles for piezotone inks.
> ImagePrint's web site does have some profiles that look relevant, but so
> far I've been unable to make their demo work.  (I get the first half
> inch of the print and then it stops and will print no more until the
> machine is rebooted.)
> 
> Any hints or pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         Benjamin 
> 
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> Benjamin C. Pierce
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