Digital BW, The Print

Scott,

Jump in. You never learn until you are unsure.

If you have calibrated monitor and a color managed
workflow using QTR and getting prints that match your
vision with a 2200 is really quite simple. Roy's lab
working space and the matte and glossy profiles for
soft proofing make it very straight forward and
intuitive. You can get very high quality prints on the
standard papers (and many non-standard ones) without
creating custom curves the only part of the process
that gets complex and requires more gear. With
provided curves you can get probably 90% or better of
what can be done. Going beyond this does get esoteric
but that was true in a wet darkroom too.

QTR is just that good. And that easy.

Guy
--- Scott McLoughlin <scott@...> wrote:

> 
> Mark,
> 
> I agree. The level of expertise, intense scrutiny
> and testing among the
> folks on this list makes the typical "lens test" on
> the LUG seem like
> childs play :-)
> 
> I'm using the MIS EZ inks on a C86 with EEM mostly.
> Excepting one
> clogging issue, it's been fairly trouble free,
> although I sometimes have to
> tweak the sliders and make a few prints to match
> what I'm seeing (or
> think I'm seeing) on the monitor.
> 
> I yearn to give a nice 2200 and a RIP a try, but
> frankly, the discussions
> here on the forum intimidate me a bit and make me
> wonder if I have the
> time available necessary for dialing in the results
> that the hardware/
> software is capable of.
> 
> Scott
> 
> Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
> > >
> > >
> > You Epson guys are like a bunch of nuclear
> physicists compared to guys
> > putting together cheap plastic models with too
> much airplane glue in their
> > basements when compared to just about any other
> photo list of any kind 
> > I\ufffdve
> > ever been on. Including the Leica users group.
> > I thought I was pretty smart but reading this list
> reminds me of the first
> > time I ever picked up a popular photography in
> 1965 when I was 13 and read
> > thought the columns by the columnists
> understanding about 1 percent of 
> > what
> > was being written.
> > After about ten years I understood 99 percent of
> it I think.
> > Hope it doest take 10 years with this inkjet
> stuff.
> >
> > But this Mac = Epson think I\ufffdm in agreement with.
> >
> > I didn't know HP was even in the running.
> > I thought it was Epson only or maybe Canon if you
> were a wedding
> > photographer.
> >
> > It\ufffds like I thing I once heard:
> > \ufffdwhat\ufffds wrong with my car?\ufffd
> > \ufffdit\ufffds a Ford!\ufffd
> >
> > Of course a Ford might get you to your destination
> I have no idea. And 
> > a pc
> > will number crunch or whatever.
> > My HP \ufffdLaser\ufffd jet makes great documents. Just as
> long as the pdf\ufffds are not
> > too big. I\ufffdve got to figure out how to stick some
> more memory into it.
> >
> >
> > Mark Rabiner
> > Photography
> > Portland Oregon
> > http://rabinergroup.com/
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