Digital BW, The Print

Have you converted your images to "QTR Gray Matte" profile before 
printing? If not give it a try!
You can find the QTR gray profiles at the following address (file 
grayspace.zip):

http://homepage.mac.com/royharrington/FileSharing2.html

Bye
Marco

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "krn_ptr" 
<krn_ptr@y...> wrote:
> 
> I have pulled my first tests with QTR on the Epson 2200 and they 
are  
> wonderfully neutral.  They are, however, a little light and don't 
match the 
> monitor tonality or the density of the same (greenish) image 
printed with the 
> Epson driver.  I'm printing on Velvet Fine Art and I've used both 
the EEM and 
> PFA profiles with little or no difference in density.  I dropped a 
contrasty curve 
> layer on the image in CS to see if the paper could actually print 
at a higher 
> density and it did.  
> 
> Is there a simple way of increasing the density and contrast in 
QTR?  There are 
> "Expert" setting options in the QTR driver, but I don't know when 
or how to 
> access them.  I'd like to know if it's possible to achieve simple
(?) density and 
> contrast adjustments before getting into what looks like a serious 
learning 
> curve to produce profiles for Epson and non-Epson inks.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> peter