Digital BW, The Print

David, I don't know of any QTRgui profiles addresses, have not even
looked.

Given easy/excellent alternatives of Black-Only and QTRgui, canned
profiles may have little or no appeal to many of us...especially if
we'v shot, processed, and printed a lot of B&W film over the years and
practicing formal or informal "previsualization."  

Similarly, linearization's equivalent was never part of the
traditional silver printing discipline for most fine B&W printers.

IMO the situations the same with color. People who already have simple
photochemical printing skills should have little difficulty printing
well digitally without color profiles. 

As an alternative to "scientific"-seeming techniques, I want to
explore Craig Blacklock's multi-pass printing technique, hoping to get
expanded tonal scales and true duotone effects: www.viewcamera.com
Blacklock uses/used Piezotone and large printers, but the same success
should be possible with 2200 and probably others, combined with OEM
pigments and QTRgui. 

The idea of multi-pass printing seems more consistent with
image-making generally, certainly with print-making generally, than
does densitometry.

John 


> John:
> 
> Could you please post the web site address to find the QRTgui
profiles that
> you mentioned here.
>