Digital BW, The Print

OK got you.  Then edit as discussed.  Soft proof as discussed.  Prior to
saving as a tiff for printing, convert to profile QTR Photo or Matte
depending on media using Perceptual and Black point compensation, save as
tiff - now you have a QTR Matte (or Photo) tagged file.

If you are stuck on the Windoze platform and have no other choice EEM curves
are very close to HPR.  Most of us use EEM for proofing.  The linearisation
will be off but not too badly - dMax and dMin are not massively different.
The bigger issue (and the one I think most users struggle with) is how to
manage the big tonal compression and it is Roy's addition that gets this
done well.  Presumably someone, Roy?, ported the existing profiles that were
in circulation for beginner Mac users over to the Windoze platform.  Given
HPR profiles exist for Mac users perhaps if you asked nicely that person
will port them over for PC users.

Cheers

Steve


> From: Tim Atherton <timatherton@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:01:24 -0700
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: QTR settings with Hahnemuehle Photo Rag
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> I am not sure what you are talking about.  When you either assign
>> or convert
>> a file to QTR Gray Lab it is tagged as this and this is what you
>> want.  The
>> whole point is that you want to edit in QTR Gray Lab and have your files
>> tagged and saved as QTR Gray Lab.  You then use the PS colour engine to
>> convert the file on the fly at the point of printing (a la a colour
>> workflow) to either the QTR Matte Paper or QTR Photo Paper profile
>> (depending on the paper you are printing to) using Perceptual Intent and
>> Black Point Compensation.
> 
> if you are using QTR PC you don't use Photoshop for printing - you can't
> convert anything on the fly at the point of printing - which was my point.
> 
> You can't edit the file in the QTR LAB Grey then assign a profile at the
> point of printing. Everything has to be done when the file is saved - hence
> my question (and Chris's I believe)
> 
>> presumably at some point someone ported a bunch of profiles over.  HPR and
>> EEM are very similar and almost substitutable.
> 
> Actually there are significant differences in the way HPR and EEM print
> 
> tim
> 
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