Digital BW, The Print

I just wanted to thank Roy Harrington once again publicly for all he had done for this 
global digital monochrome community. He deservs the engineer of the decade award for 
QTR, and the way he had made it available to us so unselfishly. I thought is was cool with 
straight quad inksets but with Ultrachrome, I'm amazed.

I set up my new 9600 yesterday and today I did 15 variations of monochrome toning of 
one  portrait image on H. Photo Rag. These curves are so easy to use and this interface so 
amazingly clear and user friendly I don't know what to say. It took me six months to TRY 
to do with the Lyson Small Gamut tonable quad inkset what I did in one hour with 
UltraChrome and QTR. And the Lyson tonable system never was satisfactory in regard to 
metamerism or color purity.

Everyone of these variations I did this first day with QTR are worthy of putting in a gallery. 
None of them are THE one, they all have their own qualities and none by the way have any 
noticeable metamerism and with my drum scan I have very nice blacks and subtle high 
values. And I've just started.

So far if I have a favourites from one days work the hue curve selections that I like ( today)
are -  W 50%/ C 50% for a warm neutral, CS 70% / C 30% for cool neutral, and W/W 100% 
for a carbon sepia hue. But there plenty of other combinations that I like as well, such as 
the 100% CSel curves he already worked out. I know this took a lot of work from this team 
and I just feel so much hope with my vocation when I see someone doing things right that 
can make me think more creatively without having to fight the technology.

Does anyone have any personal choices for curve percentages/ paper combinations with 
QTR and Ultrachrome? I'm curious what others are doing with this set up. Finally, how 
much of this ink is coming out of the color channels? This I am not clear about. I mean 
there is no metamerism and I find it hard to belive that I'm getting this subtle of tonal 
rendition out of just 2 black channels?

Thanks again,

John