Digital BW, The Print

Answers to some of your questions:
1) Use the OFB profiles for your RC papers, assuming you have the Photo 
black ink installed in your 2200.
2) Don't know how you handle this with the PC version, but I find that 
no special paper feed instructions are necessary with the OS X version 
(printing from Photoshop) - just load the paper manually in the rear 
feed slot and print as usual.
3) I have profiles for Epson Premium Semigloss that were made under OS 
X, but I think the .quad files should work fine with QTRPC as well 
since all of the other profiles you have were also made using QTROSX.  
Send me an email if you want to try them.  You should be aware that the 
Epson UC inks bronze quite badly on all of the RC papers, particularly 
when printing B&W.  You can eliminate some of this by spraying the 
prints later with PremierArt PrintShield.  I also have a neutral 
profile for printing on RC papers that uses only the LK, LC, and LM 
inks (no black ink used) so you could keep the matte black loaded for 
printing to matte papers and not have to switch to Photo black for 
printing to RC papers.  You won't get as high a dmax with this "no 
black ink" profile, but for most images it works OK (dmax about 1.77 on 
semimatte and luster).
4) Can't help you with this one.
5) No.  The cool profiles use K, LK, LC, and LM only.  The warm 
profiles use K and LK only.  Sepia uses K, LK, LM, and Y.  Generally 
the amounts of the "toner" inks (LM, LC, and Y) used are quite small - 
hence no metamerism.

On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at 10:11  AM, Beau wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> This is my first posting to the group - thanks for being there! After 
> Roy was kind enough to help me with a glitch (my fault!) I finally got 
> QTR for Windoze to print for me and I'm impressed! I used Epson 
> Enhanced Matte paper and the print is as neutral as Switzerland! Roy 
> did a great job. Since he's out of town for a week, I thought I might 
> run a few questions by the group if I may.
>
> 1) I'm one of those weird people who like to print B&W on glossy paper 
> (I like how the blacks look) and there's obviously no profile for 
> Epson's PGP. Is it inadviseable to use the EM profile but stick glossy 
> paper in the printer? Might I experience a meltdown and catch my hair 
> on fire?
>
> 2) I'm fuzzy on how one might use larger paper sizes loaded from the 
> manual slot behind the printer. When using Epson's driver, I have to 
> tell it to pull the paper from the rear, and while I see in the batch 
> file QTR supports bigger paper sizes, I can't see where to tell it to 
> pull that paper from the manual feed slot in the back of the printer.
>
> 3)  Probably only Roy could answer this, but is support for either of 
> Epson's Semi-gloss or Premium Lustre papers in the works?
>
> 4) I tried using the QTR GUI this morning too and it almost worked! 
> The printer only printed about 3/4ths of the print though and stopped.
>
> 5) Does QTR use all of the Epson inks to get such a neutral print?
>
> Finally a last observation. A couple of month's ago, due to the 2200's 
> less than stellar B&W performance with Epson drivers, I bought an HP 
> 7960 printer and was totally blown away by the B&W prints. Even though 
> QTR seems to perform as "advertised", I still prefer the HP prints. I 
> suspect that's a paper issue for me though and not the fault of QTR. 
> To me, the HP papers look better than Epson's Enhanced Matte paper. 
> HP's "matte" looks more like Epson's Premium Luster to me, and HP's 
> "pro" glossy papers just look amazing. Again, I suspect this is 
> perhaps just a personal preference thing - some may like Enhance 
> Matte, but I'm just not a big fan - I find the tonal gradations of the 
> HP/Glossy combination look better to my eye and thus my question about 
> using different papers with QTR.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions/comments. Ol' Roy deserves a 
> medal! ;-)
>
> beau :)