Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Nick, sounds like it is worth a try.

Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Nick H. Nugent" 
<nghin@p...> wrote:
> Hi Steve, and Roy,
> 
> I meant to write some feedback on the QTR/R800/R1800 solution but 
got
> sidetracked by something else at the moment. Here are some
> observations based on the available profiles for EEM and my R1800.
> 
> 1. Printing at 1440 super mode is prone to banding. This is 
typically
> the case with the R1800. It appears there is not enough interweaving
> for the 1.5 pl droplets in the Epson driver or hardware. Toned 
prints,
> sepia and cool, are less vulnerable to banding.
> 
> 2. The supplied profiles were probably made using 1440 dpi mode so
> when printing in 2880 dpi results in heavy ink laydown. Without the
> ability to create profiles for the R1800 I tried to tweak the image
> itself and got a very nice prints using black-only, sepia, and cool
> profiles.
> 
> 3. Printing at 2880 yields much higher dmax.
> 
> 4. Printing in 2880 dpi mode is very slow. QTR pegs the CPU at 100%
> the whole time. But ideally for this printer the printing dpi should
> be something similar to the Epson driver's Photo RPM mode which is
> probably 5760 dpi. Hopefully QTR will support this mode some day 
with
> reasonably fast printing.
> 
> 5. The black-only prints at any dpi on the R1800 is very smooth. The
> dots are almost invisible. Toned prints look even smoother and very
> pleasing.
> 
> Sofar my wishlist for the R1800 is 1) having an R1800 as a printing
> model (I'm using R800 for the time being), faster printing speed on
> 2880 (maybe not printing speed but more optimized algorithm in 
QTR?),
> availability of 5760 dpi mode, and of course profiling capability.
> 
> Overall with the help of QTR the R1800 can really be an all-in-one
> printer for both color and b/w works and of course glossy and matte.
> 
> --nick
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen 
Kobrin"
> <kobrins@w...> wrote:
> > Has anyone tried to print with QTR on the R800?  Any impressions
> thus 
> > far?
> > 
> > Steve