Digital BW, The Print

Well then I don't think we can help you.  I get great prints from QTR.  I
get accurate soft proofs for both B&W and colour.  I get no banding with
1440 super/ordered dither.  We were trying to narrow down the issues. 2880i
won't make it blacker.  The ink slider is generally not used.  Have you
bothered to print a step wedge and compared it with one printed with the
Epson driver?   Sounds like you have so much going on that it's all a bit of
a mess.  I think your colour work is pure luck - either that or you aren't
doing your soft proof correctly.  I'm assuming you have no way of reading
density patches so we can't get insight that way.  If I were you I would
just give up and print "black only" with the Epson driver (I pointed you in
that direction with an earlier post).  The 2200 driver with Black checked
will just use the K ink.  Your prints will reflect the tone of the ink -
quite warm but to get better requires some investment in time on your part.


> From: davidpichevin <davidpichevin@...>

> 
> 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...
>