Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Moody" 
<moodymz3@y...> wrote:
>
> Sure, I have a bunch of things going on here, but I was planning 
to fire up
> the 2200 anyway.

Thanks John!

I'll plead primative here...no i1 and no photo website (hmm..maybe I 
could do it on photo.net). 

Lacking the i1, what I'd most like is your subjective impression of 
the relative sharpness of BO Vs QTR using a highly sharp-detailed 
image and your most standard QTR curve, without adjusting to match 
BO...

I'd most like to know if I've got a local problem (with the printer 
or QTR itself) or if we're talking about a workflow issue, *such as 
creating sharper images from QTR than it wants to create when it's 
linear.*

My goal isn't to fix any fault in BO. My impression is that BO's 
LACK of linearity is a virtue, sharpness-wise, but I prefer QTR's 
tone control.

I'm using OEM pigs and, for example, EEM  and Kirkland. I'm printing 
everything at 1440.

> What paper are you printing on, and what ink is in your 2200?  Do 
you have a
> website or somewhere that you can post a small part of the image?  
If so,
> please post it, and make sure you let us know what dpi you are 
printing it
> at so we are looking at the same size print.
> 
> To clarify the QTR-create-ICC issue, that exercise was intended to 
correct
> the "fault" in BO, in that it is not very linear, and QTR is.  
Printing the
> same file to both processes we should not expect the prints to 
have the same
> tone, unless they have been converted with a profile from the QTR 
tool.  I'm
> assuming you have an i1, maybe that's a bad assumption; you need 
that or
> equivalent to use the QTR-create-ICC tool.
> 
> Best regards,
> John Moody
>