Digital BW, The Print

Clayton,

I too have been playing around with QTR curves trying to duplicate the
"BO" look with Entrada Natural, Red River Aurora Art, and EEM papers.
 Mainly because QTR gives me the option to use the different dithering
and 2880 dpi.  I don't remember the options on the 2200, but on my
Epson 4000, using BO in the Epson driver, your are limited to a max of
1440 dpi for matte and cotton papers, and on my particular 4000, there
is some microbanding at 1440 with BO that annoys me.  

Anyway, I love QTR, but STILL have not been able to get a curve that
has the "luminosity" of true BO prints.  I've gotten close, but no
cigar yet.  The differences are particularly noticeable in images
where there is a lot of fine high contrast detail, such as vegetation
in landscapes, etc.

I have to admit though, I'm still on the steep slope of the QTR
learning curve.  Some of the posts on this group are greek to me, but
hopefully I'll catch on someday.

Keep us posted on your progress getting that BO look with QTR.

Tony 




 (on the Epson 4000, the paper settings which use the PK (Eboni in my
case) ink with BO in the epson driver

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@c...> wrote:
> Hello Tony,
> 
> >Do I gather that you are considering moving from "BO" to "QTR 
> >with BO look"
> 
> Yes, but now I'm disappointed because it's not such a big improvement
> on other papers.  My original comparison was on Kayenta.  Then I tried
> it on EEM and the difference wasn't as dramatic, and even less on
> Condor BW, hardly any difference (to the eye, still smoother dither
> under the loupe).  Bummer!
> 
> I'm going to try some of the other dithers on these papers and see if
> maybe certain ones are better for them.  Sigh.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm