Digital BW, The Print

I downloaded the update to QTR and installed it. I had been working 
on an image that was giving me trouble with being much too dark in 
the print, compared to the monitor. I've started getting quite a few 
of those lately, and don't understand why. I was debating what to do 
to get a better match when I saw the below message from Roy about the 
update. Reading about reducing the ink limit for 2880, and even 
though I am using the 1440 profiles; I decided to try just reducing 
the ink limit -45 to see if it made any real change in the resulting 
print that had been to dark. Well, lo and behold, it now almost 
matches the monitor enough that I can pretty much rely on the screen 
image to give me almost exactly matching results in the printed 
image. If I only could get a densitometer and create the profiles for 
my paper/ink combination!!! This will have to do for now, though. 
This is the only print I've tried this on, but will try another to 
see if it's a fluke or the real deal.

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" 
<roy@h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> There is a new update for QTR on Windows.
> 
> 1) There are a couple of minor bug fixes.
> 
> 2) 2880dpi is now working.  Caveats:   with so many more
>    dots the ink limits must be reduced.  To use 1440dpi profiles
>   set the ink limits in QTRgui to -45%.   This will give very 
similar
>   densities.  The other major issue is that it is quite slow and 
most
>   of the time not worth it.   I find the best results on my printer
>   by using 1440dpi, better.  1440super is also good but slower.
> 
> 3) Also all the profiling files are now included in the download.
> 
> 4) Additionally there is a separate curve making tutorial that can 
be
>    downloaded separately.  It has info that is relevant to both PC 
and Mac.
> 
> Roy