Digital BW, The Print

>I'm about to take delivery of my first MIS inks (UT7).  If, Roy, you
>can soon provide some curves for that inkset too then I'll be in
>printer's heaven.

I'll reveal my ignorance here. I'm not familiar with UT7, I've been using
and happy with MIS VM for several years so I haven't seen a need to change
to UT7, but why do you want to use Roy's RIP with UT7 inks? I thought the
principal reason for having that RIP was to be able to use the Epson color
inks for B&W printing. If you have quadtones, and have the MIS curves, what
does the RIP do for you?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "virtuallygrey" <stephengledhill@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 1:57 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] QTR for Windows - Brilliant - Thanks Roy


First thought and reaction to QTR for Windows . It's brilliant.

Thanks Roy - this was most certainly well worth waiting for.  My $50
will be on its way shortly.

I use XP Home (yes it works - it's not just XP Pro as someone asked)
with a 2100 (I'm in the UK).  I've been only reasonably happy with
the standard B&W output from my 2100 and the Epson driver - but the
edge was taken off by metamerism (yes - it is very definitely
present) and the very cold prints that I got.  Of course I could do
adjustments by converting my greyscale images to RGB but never in a
wholly satisfactory manner.

I installed QTR this afternoon and after a couple of minor hiccups I
produced the first of a series of 10 test prints - "Out of the
Box".  I chose a full range image with deep shadows and fine
highlights.  I've printed different sizes (A4 and A6), all so far on
EEM (it's still known as EAM in the UK), in the four supplied
curves - Cool, Cool Sepia, Sepia and Warm, as well as some blended
curves.  And I've printed some Greyscales to see how smooth the
gradation is.   And .

Every image is better than that produced by the Epson Driver.  Under
a loupe there is no evidence at all of coloured dots - unlike the
Epson Driver that shows them in abundance - no doubt giving rise the
accursed metamerism.  The greyscales are beautifully smooth from 0%
to 100%.  The image shows exceptional detail in the shadows as well
as in the tricky highlight areas.  What more can a printer ask for?

Well perhaps one or two things.  Whilst the maximum black is very
black(!), when viewed under a loupe there is evidence of less than
100% ink coverage - the paper base just shows through reducing the
density to say 99%.  If it were 100% then the blacks would be even
deeper!

I'm sure all of my euphoria is just a statement of the obvious for
the Mac users amongst us.  But for us Wind-ees this is both a
revelation and a revolution.  And to think I was ready to shell out
for ImagePrint.

I'm about to take delivery of my first MIS inks (UT7).  If, Roy, you
can soon provide some curves for that inkset too then I'll be in
printer's heaven.

I've been printing with inks for almost 4 years now.  I started with
Lyson Quad Black, then Piezography, then Ultrachromes, now with QTR
with UT7 to come - and it just keeps getting better all the time.

My hiccup today was when I printed an image that was the correct
printing size at something like 2409 dpi.  It produced a very weird
vertical banded effect.  But previously I'd printed the same image
at 360 dpi with no problem at all.  So I re-sized the image to
360dpi (an exact factor of 1440/2880) and it worked perfectly.  So,
a question - is it necessary to do this for all QTR printed images?
And if so - why?

Onwards and upwards ...

Steve Gledhill
www.virtuallygrey.co.uk




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