Digital BW, The Print

Hi folks,

Well, since there is practically no support for QTR I'll bother you guys and gals, sorry about that but that is what the site said to do!  I have read the help file, end to end, but it is mostly just telling you what each menu is for.  No details.

There are many problems using this software, but one that is really killing me is that there is no way to stop a print once it is started - ie no cancel function.  Do you reboot to stop it or just turn off the printer ?  I'm going to be patient and try to learn the in's/out's of the RIP ... have to since I'm printing some art works of mine that are larger than 44" long (PS won't go past that in my setup).  

There are things that seem good, but also:  you have to pick some paper profiles by chance to figure out tone ... how do you get started with that ?  Print a file with all the different profiles ?  I've tried starting with the ones for the paper I'm using (Moab Entreda nat white) and between the warm and sepia I can get some interesting tones.  It does seem that there are some big limits on what tone is available though ... with the above and using the "cool tone" Moab curve you can get somewhere between greenish and a redish tone.  Apparently no way to go yellowish etc. (at least with those curves).  I am, unfortunately, used to working in PhotoShop where making these kind of tone changes is simple.

It is obvious that a lot of testing is needed to use this software and I am behind, please have some patience with that :) Any suggestions would be welcome to help get some control over the printing.

David