Digital BW, The Print

How are you printing on your 1160?

I print using MIS-FS (old) inks using QTR on my 1160 and see no dots in 
the highlights under an 8x loupe.

Maybe it's not the printer, but your technique? Does your inkset have a 
light grey ink?

-bruce




On Monday, Feb 21, 2005, at 04:44 US/Pacific, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 6
>    Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:13:48 -0000
>    From: "hill14701" <hill14701@...>
> Subject: Re: QTR & the R800
>
>
> Time's no issue as the show isn't hung until June, and I have loads of 
> experience in the
> digital darkroom with various printers/inksets.  I'm currently running 
> an epson 1160 with
> UT-FSN, but have used pretty much every system from the original Piezo 
> to UT2 on a
> 1280.
>
> Accordingly, I wasn't asking as a noob but a potential user of QTR 
> with the R800 or 2200.
> Searching through the posts, I read that Roy is working on QTR for the 
> R800, and many
> 2200 owners are happy with their results.  My main issue with the 1160 
> is that as I print
> small, the viewers are sensitive to the dotty highlights when viewed 
> at close distances.  As
> the R800 has the smaller drop sizes, it seems to be an excellent 
> printer for my purposes
> when the R800 QTR is released.