Digital BW, The Print

What Tom just said, copy that.

Sorry we missed the PK issue. It's 3/4 of your problem.

But as Paul pointed out with an rc paper like P. Semi Gloss you will
achieve a really good dmax but you do have to spray it. However....
I've never gotten an acceptable black and white color tone using the
rc media, epson inks with QTR or othewise. It always looks too warm so
I always stay with matte media for monochrome and Ultrachrome inkset.

John



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker
<tbaker1328@s...> wrote:
> 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@b...> 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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