Digital BW, The Print

Hi and thank you for your answers to my petculant outbreak (while staying up late trying to get this combo working ...)

I use a PC with winXP pro.  Nothing fancy at all, built it just for printing (Pent 3, 550MHz, 128 RAM .... yup going to up that).

On stopping the print, interesting idea, I will check that out ! thanks

As for testing, I did start with small test prints and some came out well.  Since I switched to roll paper to start to get this show printed problems have come up.  BUT I stand by my assertion that knowing what is going to happen with any particular combo requires you to print that combo... there is no method to preview what might happen or even get a hint for that matter.  I tried using the Entreda cool and warm and then I tried warm and sepia.  While QTR can produce extremely subtle gradations between the pure cool and pur sepia:  all those gradations are along a single color change line.  Basically from a greenish (pure cool) tone to a brownish (pure sepia).  No way to get to any other tones that I can see.  It apparently is the case that I can produce the other possibilities thru custom curves I make later.  One thing that is odd ... the cool tone is really what most would call a warm tone.  I realize that this is likely a limitation of the paper (a warm toned variety) and the ink set (UC).

 
> You will find QTR powerful once you get used to it.  Also, if you ever want
> to create your own custom profiles, you will be able to get pretty much any
> type of print you want.  But to start with, just use the curves that come
> with distribution and you will have a simpler time.
> 

I am trying to get them to work .... and I've heard a lot about QTR, hence why I'm tring it.  Now if I could just figure out how to avoid the huge difference in brightness between PS and QTR (a PS view of the file is about 50% brighter than a QTR print, so you have to either reset it to print or keep another copy - anonying but workable).

 
> This is a great group of folks and I have seen this forum be extremely
> helpful to new people.  Just take it one step at a time and when you get
> stuck ask a question.
> 
> Paul

Thanks for your help Paul, and sorry for the "tone" of my first post but of late it seems there is a lot of software out there with no support but great abilities... you would think that in order to capture a market away from the likes of PS the authors would at least put out a small tutorial or the like.  I'm just frustrated that is all.

David