Digital BW, The Print

Steve

I'm taking all this info onboard, time to do some reading up and getting to
grips with QTR. Regarding the paper I buy regularly so changing to a more
suitable type for B/W isn't a problem. Changing inks is, I can only use
PhotoBlack with canvases and that's my main printing revenue. After a couple
of ink swaps I could have bought a dedicated printer for B/W, but first some
education.

William
  -----Original Message-----
  From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Steve Kale
  Sent: 20 September 2005 16:48
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: B/W on the 9600


  William

  Dedicated B&W inks are certainly better than your UCs two greyscale inks.
  But I also suspect you can get a lot better output than you are currently
  with your existing colour setup.  Personally you may find it worth
exploring
  what you can do with that colour setup and then decide if that passes
  mustard before making an additional investment in hardware.  (Or the 9800
  will undoubtedly be considerably better at both colour and B&W than the
  9600.)  The first thing I would do is swap MIS Eboni ink for your Epson
  matte black ink (you can use this for colour work also - just reprofile).
  Eboni will produce a better black on matte paper than Epson MK - not
  dramatically better but better nonetheless.  Also spend some time with
QTR -
  it is powerful and cheap ($50).  It allows you complete control over the
  individual inks in a 9600, allows you to linearise the greyscale output
and
  the QTR Create ICC module allows you to profile this output and use CM to
  fit images to the print space.  If that still doesn't cut it then it's
  either a 9800 (3 K inks) or, as a further step, a dedicated B&W setup with
  anything from 3 (UT7) to 7 (Peizo K7) K inks.

  Steve




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