Digital BW, The Print

Yes and you would do well to ask someone with a 2200 and the same ink set as
you to create a QTR Create ICC profile for your most common paper(s).
Things have improved since the original generic QTR ICC profiles.  (Or if
you have an EyeOne or similar device make them yourself.)


> From: Chris Hargens <chargens@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:16:20 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: printing with Epson ICC profiles
> 
> I've found that my prints get better contrast and seemingly deeper
> blacks -- using QTR on my 2200 with the UC inkset -- when I convert my
> image in PS to the QTR Gray Matte Paper profile, which Roy at one
> point provided, and then editing the image for printing. When printing
> in QTR I, of course, use the paper profile for the paper I'm printing
> on, along with other specific settings. However, printing with (again
> UC inks) using the Epson driver does seem to produce smoother prints
> with fewer dots in the highlights. The problem, as you mention, is
> color casts. It would seem that the new Piezo K7 inkset might give an
> equivalent, if not superior smoothness, and the scant reports that
> have appeared on the web seem to bear this out.
> 
> Chris Hargens