Digital BW, The Print

Hogarth,

No apologies are necessary, please. I appreciate your response and
will send Roy an email directly just to confirm.

Colorbyte doesn't advertise linearization, but when I was talking with
John Pannozzo before making my decision to go with a multiple license
version of Imageprint or buy StudioPrint, he was the one who said I
could linearize for quadtone inksets and paper combinations. Since he
is the President of Colorbyte, I thought the information was accurate
and would be made accessible to me. 

I worked with Peter Supry at Studioprint and got my linearization
"trail by fire" with his kind assistance on a 14 day demo. Once
understood, it certainly is a straighforward and elegantly simple
process. However, at the time I did want the UltraChrome B&W
capability (not initially offered by SP) and I got a price I couldn't
refuse on an IP package thinking I'd also have the ability to perform
linearization of quadtones as well. Still thinking on that one ;>)

Since I have several wide-format printers now running IP (and a 7000
using R9/BWPro), the thought of dropping another $2K+ into StudioPrint
is just a bit more than I can justify. But then, Xmas is just around
the corner and it's amazing what you can justify with a little eggnog,
brandy and a credit card ;>)

I'm sure Roy and all the fine folks supporting QTR will continue to
deliver more functionality for the Windoze contingent -- so I guess I
could just wait a bit or maybe just break down and buy a Mac... nah!

I've also been running Paul's UT formulations and curves through my
desktop machines and had excellent results. In fact, most of my
smaller prints are done with UTs, but I prefer the controls and RIP
dithering for the wide format Epsons -- tend to have fewer problems
with micro-banding.

Just curious what kind of inks (and machines) you're running with SP?
My "demo" time was spent on 7000/9000 machines with Jon's WT and NT
Piezotones. Absolutely beautiful tonality after a couple of passes
with the Eye-One...

Thanks again, Hogarth.

Cheers!

Richard

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Hogarth Hughes
<hogarth@s...> wrote:
> I had read, on this list I think, that linearization was in the
latest 
> releases of QTR. I'm a StudioPrint user, so have no direct
experience 
> with QTR. Roy is the expert, and his website is the authority. If
it's 
> not in the windoze version, then I mislead you and I apologize.
> 
> I haven't seen anything that says you can linearize ImagePrint
either. 
> StudioPrint, OTOH, does have functionality for linearization built
in.
> --
> Hogarth Hughes
> 
> 
> richard_h95050 wrote:
> 
> >Hogarth,
> >
> >Thanks for your reply. Yes, I have spent some time in the past
> >chatting with Roy and installed the Beta on a Win2K machine the
first
> >day it was released. Made some beautiful UltraChrome B&W prints on
my
> >2200, and know that he is working generously on adding printers,
> >profiles and functionality for QTR on all platforms.
> >
> >However, to my knowledge the linerarization interface provided for
the
> >Mac version has not yet been ported to Windows. Admittedly, the
> >operative term here is "...to my knowledge" -- so if you and/or
Roy or
> >anyone else has indeed worked out a way to linearize QTR output on
> >Windows, I would be a most appreciative recipient of the
information.
> >
> >Still very interested in the same process for IP as well...
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >Richard
> >
> >
> >--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Hogarth Hughes
> ><hogarth@s...> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Think again. QTR now runs on windoze platforms, and you can
> >>    
> >>
> >linearize it.
> >  
> >
> >>--
> >>Hogarth Hughes
> >>
> >>
 >