Digital BW, The Print

StudioPrint is ideal, but you can drive your printer with the same inks with QTR nicely also, 
for $50. John Dean does it beautifully, as well as Roy.
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Robert Mitchell 
<mitchinmaine@...> wrote:
>
> Gosh Joel, a million thanks.  What wonderful
> information.  I will study your comments and try to
> figure out where to go.  Cost IS a factor, so the
> ricey part concerns me.
> 
> Thank you sooooo much,
> 
> mitch
> --- Joel Pickford <badbluesman@...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mitch,
> > 
> > I decided to go digital with my B&W exhibition work
> > way back in 2001.  Since then, I have tried almost
> > every software/ink solution out there, ranging from
> > IRIS/Omnitone ink printing, several generations of
> > Cone products, various RIP and profiling solutions
> > for
> > Ultrachrome inks, Media Street G-Quad inks, Lyson's
> > Daylight Darkroom and more.
> > 
> > Of all these solutions, what I like the best, so
> > far,
> > is the Cone K7 inkset (K6 for your 7000 printer)with
> > the Studio Print 12 RIP program.  Although it is a
> > bit
> > pricy, the Studio Print RIP will ultimately make
> > your
> > life alot easier and save wasted ink and paper. 
> > Used
> > in conjunction with a spectrometer such as the
> > Gretag
> > Eye One Photo, Studio Print is brilliantly simple
> > and
> > elegant to operate.  It allows you to set your inks
> > up
> > almost anyway you like and then create an absolutely
> > perfect grayscale by linearizing and ink limiting
> > your
> > paper of choice.  It is incredibly easy to do and
> > the
> > results are spectacular.  It is the closest thing to
> > a
> > digital Zone System I have seen.
> > 
> > Studio Print also makes it lots easier to set up
> > jobs,
> > drag and drop multiple print layouts, and resize
> > images on the fly.  In addition, you create "print
> > environments" which save all of your printer and ink
> > settings, as well as your B&W linearizations or
> > color
> > profiles.  You simply create different print
> > environments for different papers, printers, etc.
> > that
> > you use and then just toggle between them from a
> > pull-down menu.
> > 
> > The only drawback is that Studio print is a Windows
> > only program.  However, it runs fine on Macs using a
> > Windows emulator such as Parallels Desktop.  Studio
> > Print does not use much memory or processor power,
> > so
> > running it on a WIN emulator is no problem.
> > 
> > Currently, Cone offers a so-called "neutral" K6/K7
> > ink
> > set and a Sepia set.  Everyone is waiting for a new
> > Selenium set in the pipeline that will work on both
> > glossy or matte papers.  To my eye, selenium is much
> > closer to neutral (a highly subjective concept).  I
> > am
> > using the Sepia K7 set and I love it.  It is
> > somewhat
> > less warm and less yellow than the previous Cone
> > Carbon Sepia ink set.  The difference between my new
> > prints with K7 and my old K4 prints is surprising; I
> > am seeing tonal passages I never knew were there.
> > 
> > Good luck!
> > BBM
> > 
> > 
> >  
> >
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