Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@b...> wrote:

> 
> With the ICC profile-based soft proof you should then get a very
good match
> (assuming your monitor is properly profiled) to the QTR print. I use
a Mac
> and so the QTR print stage is a lot easier for me - I simply print
from PS
> with an on the fly conversion from my workspace (QTR Grey Lab) to my
print
> space (QTR Matte/Photo paper) - much in the same way that you do
with colour
> work.  With the PC version of QTR you need to manually do the conversion
> from your "master" image to the "print" image and save this version for
> print. 

Actually, I'd like to reformulate the question differently.

While I'm sure there are many experienced people that get great
results with QTR, I feel like I am currently creating new issues while
trying to fix another one.

Let's go back to the start. Instead of looking at it as QTR giving me
low contrast prints, is there another way to fix the metamerism
problem on the Photoshop print? Since the Photoshop print has the
right contrast and all the rest, eliminating the metamerism while
keeping the rest equal would be pretty good.

Is there any 3rd-party profile that could be used in PS when going
through the "print with preview" instead of the ones I am using right
now (SP2200 EHM 1440MK or 2880MK) that would eliminate the metamerism?

Also, if using an external program, by-passing any nice but
unnecessary thing such as toning etc...is there any program that would
print the same way as PS (if PS can do it simply, why is it so
complicated with QTR?) without the metamerism?