Digital BW, The Print

David, does your print look more or less like what you see on your monitor?  Did you try printing it in RGB (Print priview, paper profile, etc.) from PS?   How did they compare (considering the difference in blending)?  I had been processing in duotones (actually quadtones) to counteract the metamerismic effect prior to this, so printed a 'tinted/duotone' RGB image that I had processed from b/w--and it pritned as my calibrated monitor showed it--except that it had metamerism.  I printed the same convertered to LAB, then converted to gray-matte, then used a blend to print (similar tone to my duotone) and except for the metamerism (which the QTR print didn't exhibit), they were about equal in contrast, detail, etc.

I'm probably not the one to suggest any remedies for you since I"m new to QTR, but not new to printing with the 2200/PS.  Hopefully someone will have a remedy, but I would print the same image from PS and QTR and see how they compared--perhaps some of this is due to the b/w conversion process.

Diane
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: davidpichevin 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Quadtone RIP Faded print



  Diane,

  Thanks for this and your previous replies.

  The workflow you have described is what I have done for my last print
  in QTR. Convert the file to the Grey matte profile from Roy, save then
  import it into QTR for printing. There, I selected the matte curves, 2
  of them blended at 50% in order to get a neutral tone. Printed, and
  what came out drastically lacked contrast.

  David.

  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Diane Fields"
  <picnic@c...> wrote:
  > I'm new to QTR, but I will tell you my reason for not using it as my
  working space--but rather have it as my 'proof'--meaning I convert to
  it.  I prefer to work in Adobe RGB98, process as b/w (and use a
  variety of ways depending upon the image)--but I don't convert to LAB
  until the end (and then to gray-matte paper, my usual paper).  I can't
  use PKS in grayscale for one thing--and this is normally my last
  process before printing.   I'm watching to see how others handle this,
  but that was my understanding of how to handle it--as a 'conversion'.
  It works well for me.  If I need to do just a bit more to the file
  before printing, I can still  add an adjustment layer to it, but I've
  done most of my work in RGB, 16 bit (and, in fact, most of it besides
  the b/w conversion, was done before the RAW conversion since I shoot
  mostly digital RAW).






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