Digital BW, The Print

I have the same monitor (if I recall the post correctly) and I calibrate with Monaco Optix re and get prints that match my softproofed color images correctly (allowing for 'illumination' vs. paper).  I use paper profiles for each paper and I'm working toward a good 'proofing' for the QTR.  I, too, was going to suggest an adjustment layer of curves---but felt maybe I was too presumptious since I'm new to QTR (but certainly not to PS or printing).  It would be what I would do--while working with the proofing/profiles that Roy outlined.

Diane
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Kale 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:54 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Quadtone RIP Faded print


  With all due respect to Bill, David you have a ways to go before you try
  doing your own curves.  The canned curves should produce a reasonable image
  out-of-the-box.  I doubt you would notice too much difference if you did
  your own linearization which requires a densimeter or photospectrometer.
  Work through the dialogue we have given you so far and try to get your
  workflow setup correctly.  And try to get your monitor calibrated.  The
  proofing workflow I described is correct and you can preview both QTR and
  Epson output.  The QTR print driver settings are really very easy and
  shouldn't require a lot of fussing with (1440 super, better, ordered dither,
  mix 65% cool/35% warm for "roughly neutral", matte paper).  The only other
  thing you need concern yourself with is the profile conversion which is
  important.  In the same way that you do a profile conversion on the fly with
  the Epson driver (from Adobe RGB to your Enhanced Matte paper profile) you
  need to do it with QTR - it's just that you must do it manually with PC QTR.

  With BOTH the Epson driver and QTR you will see the reduction in dynamic
  range associated with printing to matte paper.  This is nothing to do with
  the driver per se but to do with the fact that the greyscale that can be
  represented on your screen exceeds significantly the greyscale that can be
  printed on matte paper.  Do the two softproofs as I said and see that they
  have roughly the same impact on an image.  BOTH ways of printing require a
  little addition of contrast via a curve to make up for the matte paper.
  Much less if any is required for printing to photo paper.



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