Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Antonis,

Yea, you can linearize QTR  very accurately and assign characteristics like 
toning pigments to specific channels, althought I haven't done it yet. When I 
finally get my Piezzo set up going I will do that, and find someone with a color 
spectro to help me do it. Someone was talking about that Roland printer with 
12 channels. Now that would keep you busy for a year. I'm sure some one is 
working that and will end up in galleries in NY next year.

I am interested to find out if anyone has been successful is devising a 
workflow for split toning with QTR and Ultrachrome? I did it half ass with 
Lyson Small Gamut but was never satisfied and didin't pursue it very far. Now 
I would like to work something out. Since QTR is printing out of greyscale I 
wouldn't know how to proceed. I think one could do some stellar things with 
say using a  quite cool neutral for the lower end and a warmish, almost 
orange-sienna sepia for  the very high end, sort of like what Gowin did with 
split gold tonining silver prints with his Petra series. QTR with Ultrachrome is 
capable of some quite nice sepia variations, you just have to play with it.  
Black and white printing is just getting started in this world.

John






-> The strength of IJC and the logic behind spending the money
> at all is to make it easy to make or tweak your own profiles.
> If you are going the canned route, consider Paul's curves
> and Roy's QTR (though of course you can make custom
> profiles there too, I am just not as familiar with that
> interface as I am with IJC). Either are less expensive than
> IJC.
>