Digital BW, The Print

Paul and Richard, thank you very much for your responses. Thank you 
also Myron for your email response. Your time is appreciated.

Paul, I am finding smoothness is indeed an issue with the QTR/Epson 
UC combo. If I use 1440, images look a little on the grainy side and 
transitions block up a little and even look a little posterized. In 
bright daylight I can see banding in the midtones with my naked eye. 
I am printing off an 8 bit TIFF file. Presumably printing off a 16 
bit file would make no difference. Also shadows are a bit dark and I 
have tried taking -5 on the ink limit slider which helps some.

When I use 2880 things get darker and grittier and shadows over-ink 
to the point of the rollers picking up ink before it can dry. I have 
tried -10 ink limit and this helps but looks like I will need to 
limit it further. 

I am using the PK carttidge and Ilford Smooth Pearl with some curves 
I got from the kind folk at the QTR Yahoo group. I like the feel and 
look of this paper but maybe I need to go back to matt for BW. 

Judging by your comments I should be able to get acceptable results 
from the QTR/EPson UC combo so I would like to persist until I am 
getting the best out of this combo.

Richard, I would love to buy Imageprint but it is a little too far 
out of the budget at the moment.