Digital BW, The Print

No typo here. The Epson 1200 is one of the many printers supported by QTR. As a matter 
of fact as I  am writing this I am printing a job that is turning out beautufully with it. 

Here is the story for me. I have it set up in OSX Panther ( yes!) with the standard QTR 
driver. Since there are no QTR curves available for the 1200 and the other curves would 
not load for me, I am converting the file to greyscale and using grey gamma 2.2 in place of 
a profile. My only compaint so far, and Roy may be able help with this, is that I can't use 
the nozzle check or head cleaning menu in the QTR with the 1200. So, I have to go over to 
OS9 and my old Epson driver to do that.

You know my results look just like the screen using this unsophisticated procedure with 
Hahnemuhle Photo Rag and Cone Piezzotone Carbon Sepia. I can't tell you what would 
happen with UT inks, but my assumption is that if you have someone make a profile for 
you it would work great. But even before you do that you could try my procedure and see 
what the results are. I plan to have a more sophisticated profile made for my inkset and 
media, but I'm telling you these prints look great with excellent d-max already. To me 
they look as good as the 1280 prints I'm doing with the Selenium Tone inkset with the 
Piezzo ICC profiles.

 One of the things with the 1200 is that the nozzle droplet size is a little larger than the 
1280 and more contemporary printers. I have been told that this cuts down on clogged 
nozzles with the heavier carbon inks, and helps that kind of issue. We shall see. I got this 
old priner years ago on ebay and it paid for itself the first job I did with it. It is something 
that I've had a lot of fun with and now I'm going to set up a cfs with it. Why not?

John





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Douglas Meeuwsen 
<lipshurt@m...> wrote:
> hmmmm.....did john dean make a typo here regarding the 1200 and QTR? I 
> cant find any way to use the QTR with the1200. It would be great if i 
> could use the 1200 with QTR. ......anyone?.....DM
> On Oct 21, 2004, at 7:43 AM, john dean wrote:
> 
> >
> >  I also know that when printing out of QTR on my 1200 with Piezzotones 
> > if I choose 2.2
> >  gamma I get excellent results by just using that as my profile, even 
> > without linearizaton or
> >  a custom made ICC profile for that media ink combinaton. I assume the 
> > difference is the
> >  way the driver maps the tonal scale and thus where the ink is laid 
> > down from a particuar
> >  area of the scale. Right?
> >
> 
> 
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