Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "joemulligan_68" 
<joemulligan_68@...> wrote:
>
> From my limited experience with K7 (four months), I find the hghlights too light.  K7 has 
> problems with high contrast images that have a quick transition from shadow to 
highlight.  
> Even though the transtiions are quick they still should be smooth.  K3 has no problem 
with 
> this but K7 does.  I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this.   
> 
> I would like to see more ink thrown down on the highlights and midtones but Cone 
profiles 
> are hotwired into QTR so I have no idea how to alter them.  Does anyone know how to 
alter 
> the Cone profiles or are we stuck with creating our own?  I threw this question out at the 
> Piezography list but no one could respond.  Ditto at the QTR list.  Maybe the luminarites 
here 
> could shed some light.  
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>

Unfortunately it's not possible to modify Cone's K7 QTR profiles.  However it's quite
easy to build onto them.  Use the QTR-Create-ICC feature to make custom B&W ICC
profiles.  This way you get the full color management capabilities of printing (matching
the source embedded space to the print space) and soft-proofing to show the print
ink tones on the screen.

The advantage is that you can use the existing smooth profiles for any paper since
the ICC profile gives another level of linearization/correction.

Roy