Digital BW, The Print

It's funny but there seems to be much activity lately in the "switching
7000 printers over to B&W" world .

I've just spent a couple of days in this process myself.

I am using the MIS UT/FS inks in my 7000 and driving it with QTR.

Firstly, there is a little patch software that Roy turned me on to  that
allows a Mac using Panther to talk to the 7000. One must use the GIMP
drivers because Epson won't support old printers.

QTR uses the GIMP as well.

Setting up QTR is a little convoluted but if one carefully reads the 
instructions and does everything
to the letter, it's wonderful.

There are no curves for the 7000 and the UT/FS inks so I renamed and 
used the 1280/FS curves.

I'm still foggy as to how to fix the curves for all the parameters, so 
my crossover points are a
little funky and I still need to get greater light gray density out of 
them, but I worked around it
for now using the GIMP's "expert" adjustments on top of the QTR.

Any help with writing new curves to accomplish these changes will be 
appreciated.

I have a colorimeter that has a densitometer software that I intend to 
use when I figure out how.

For those following, I went with the  C and lc being dark grey and the 
M and lm being medium grey.

Ok, it's back to work now.

J.Z.