Digital BW, The Print

Okay, Ann.  Hope this will help.

First of all---the ICC profiles should be (for windows) in the windows folder (should be available in your dropdown if it and the other 2 ICC profiles--gray-matte and gray-photo--were placed in your C/Windows/system 32/spool/drivers/color).  Process your print in PS, convert to gray-LAB.   Now, you can softproof this by going to view/proof setup/custom and in 'profile' browse for the QTR-gray matte, set your intent to 'perceptual' and check 'ink black'.  You will def. see a difference--and it probably will be 'flatter' looking.  So--here's where you can tweak--add an adjustment layer of curves perhaps, dodge and burn-- (new layer/overlay check 18% gray and use your black and white brushes at about 7-9% opacity) but as far as tonality/contrast, wysiwyg (what you see is what you get)--but not as far as the 'color tone' though.

As far as the profiles, did you put them in C/program/Quadtone RIP/profiles/2200-uc?  I think you are printing with a 2200 and OEM inks--not sure.  If so, this is where they should go and they will show up in your dropdowns for your curves.

Diane
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: montauklady 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 2:02 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Quad loaded made a print..think I did something wrong




  I made a print in QTR..print looke good..a little warm..then I re-read
  the instructions and saw I was supposed to first change it into
  photoshop to grey scale from RGB. I did that and the print was
  terrible..flat no contrast. How am I supposed to use the grey space
  zip file which contains gray matte icc, gray photo icc, rgb lab
  icc...etc.? They were moved to the QTR folder. Also I downloaded the
  curves for various papers, extracted them into QTR, but I do not see
  them pop up in the GUI interface. What am I doing wrong. As always
  thanks for your support..Ann


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