Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for those comments.

Well that is the thing. If I do use QTR then I'm wasting a lot of money  on profiles, paper 
samples, and cleaning carts ( via Media Street for $13 ea) that I won't need. Eventhough I 
don't feel qualified to linearize the channels myself, from what I have read in the past Roy 
or others on this site will do it for a reasonable charge since the process is not that 
different than with UT inksets. I was just concerned that C wouldn't sell me the carts at all 
without paying that $1,100.00 and getting a serial number or something. 

One final thing, I do have 1280  Piez profiles. How close would they be to the ones 
designed for the 7000 printer? From what I have read, those might not be perfect anyway 
since they are releasing a new set of profiles and are encouraging people to pay for their 
custom linearization profiling stystem now. However they work fine on the 1280 I just 
tested. But, of course the print heads are a lot smaller that the 7000. I'm not trying to be 
cheap here I just need another monitor now also.

john
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> Not necessarily, I know some people that are successfully printing with 
> piezography inks and Quad Tone Rip alone. I have a cheap B&W 
> densitometer and have linearized QTR for my warm neutral inks and get 
> great results better than with the ICC profiles. Now that a Windows 
> version is avcailable I don't see any reason to use the ICC profiles.
> 
> cort
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