Digital BW, The Print

William  -
 
You can get VERY good results with QTR or IJC/OPM using the UC inks.  Considering the price of QTR you really have little to lose.  Once you get QTR down pat you can make the determination to go to a decicated ink set or not.  But, using QTR IJC/OPM or IP you can make gallery quality b&w prints.
 
Tom Baker

William Wilson <wm.wilson@...> wrote:
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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