Digital BW, The Print

Hi Ferdinand,

For me a custom RGB-QTR-Create_ICC profile for my printer will do a better job than the generic QTR-RGB-Matte along with the QTR curves I made for my printer/paper combo.

Tom
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ferdinand_paris 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 2:47 AM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Epson Premium Printer Profiles for B&W Printing


  I don't quite understand this thread.  Perhaps I'm missing something.

  First, Qimage will always output a monochrome RGB from a grayscale
  input image, no matter whether you print to file or to a printer
  driver, and no matter what sharpening etc is applied.  When Mike
  Chaney modified Qimage so that we could use the QTR profiles, (and Roy
  fixed the profiles to suit Qimage), some of us tried to convince Mike
  to allow Qimage to output true single-channel grayscale images as
  well.  Mike said that that would be way too much work for him, and
  since Roy had made the RGB profiles, it wasn't really necessary for
  us.  In that sense, he is right.  QTR prints the monchrome RGB images
  just as it would a grayscale.  So, Qimage *always* outputs a three
  channel file.

  Second, I don't understand why, for QTR users, you need an RGB version
  of QTR-Create_ICC?  Perhaps someone can explain it to me.  What I do
  is convert to QTR-RGB-Matte or QTR-Gray-Matte in PSCS2 (depending on
  whether it is a true grayscale image or a three channel monchrome
  image), and then in Qimage turn "Printer ICC" off.  I get an untagged
  monochrome RGB which effectively is in QTR-RGB-Matte, and this gives
  me wysiwyg results via QTR.

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