Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, guy washburn
<guido02474@y...> wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> --- davidpichevin <davidpichevin@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > We are looking in the wrong direction. Soft proofing
> > has always given
> > me results that are so far off that it is unusable
> > no matter what I
> > Print. Soft proofin even gives me solarization on
> > the photos despite
> > the fact that in the end the color ones come out
> > perfect. It is so far
> > off that no amount of bad camibration could cause
> > that.
> 
> Actually this pretty much confirms that your monitor
> calibration is way off.
> 
> > 
> > Once again, I am getting great color prints, which
> > tells me my
> > calibration is good.
> > 
> Are you making color changes to your color images?
> Could be you are just getting decent input that prints
> clean through the Epson Driver.
> 
> What are you using for a monitor and what system are
> you using to calibrate?

Respectfully, I do not want to look in that direction. Once again, my
color prints are perfect on matte paper and I am not willing to change
that for the less than 10% B&W that I will be printing. I am using a
trinitron CRT monitor that is fairly close to sRGB.

The soft proofing is so far off and destroyed that no amount of
monitor calibration can fix that. But once again, that is not the
issue. My color prints are beautiful, and PS is printing my B&W with
the right contrast and neutral tones. The only thing I want to get rid
of is metamerism. Fine if QTR allows me in the end to even improve on
Epson, but that will be for later. A print coming out with right
contrast and tones out of PS but worse out of QTR tells me this has
nothing to do with my monitor settings but some settings in QTR that I
would need to change to get an acceptable output. That's what I'm
looking for help on. For example, how do I get my blacks from QTR as
dark as the blacks from the Epson driver? What setting do I need to
change for that? Would the ink limit slider do the trick? Would 2880
dpi use more ink and make it blacker? (I read something analog to
that). What can I do to get rid of the banding? As far as I know my
monitor calibration has nothing to do with the fact that QTR prints
with banding. Actually, if there was a full documentation for the
different QTR settings that would be perfect :)

That sort of thing...