Digital BW, The Print

> From: Paul Roark
>
> I made a number of curves for the 2000P and UT-FS inks.  The reason I
> bothered with this printer is that David Brooks is an
> acquaintance and had a
> 2000P lying around unused.  We felt if it was OK for B&W, there might be a
> number of these things just sitting around that people could devote to B&W
> -- cheaply.

I received my 2000P UT-FS and UT-FSN carts, and tried them out with your
curves. The tonality looks fine, but I'm disappointed in the grain. Light
areas show a nice clean wash of one of the lighter inks, speckled with
rather widely spaced black dots from the black cart. To the naked eye, I
can't see the dots, but I can sense the grain. The result is certainly
better than BO printing, but not as good as I get with my 2200 and
ImagePrint.

I'm wondering if it's even possible to get smooth transitions among the four
densities, if you're limited to talking to the printer through the Epson RGB
interface. Can you tell me what densities are in each of the five chambers
of the 2000P cart, so I can begin to figure this out?

Also, I'm wondering if anyone has gotten QTR to work with the 2000P and any
of these quadtone inks. I've never played with QTR, so am I right in
assuming that it has the ability to control the inks directly, instead of
having to spoof RGB values?

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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