Digital BW, The Print

You can use the Piezography ICC with your 1280 and Qimage. Basically,
Jon Cone developed an substitute ICC profile for the printer when
loaded with Piezography quad inks. You have to make sure you use that
ICC profile in Qimage where you can specify color management. I did
some printing that way using my 7000, before I moved to StudioPrint
RIP. I actually still use the quad inks (the last bit in my printer
now). I had OK results. Liked what I output from Photoshop a little
better.

I haven't used Elements, so I can't intelligently advise you what to
do there. I don't believe you have the option to have the program
manage your color for output (like Photoshop), but I could be wrong.

Nemo

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Whiting"
<paulmwhiting@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> 
> Just acquired an Epson 1280, with two sets of Piezograpy BW ICC carts,
> the CD, all for $100. Didn't think I should pass that up. The
> printer's hardly been used and the carts are in their sealed plastic
> envelopes.
> 
> Now what.. I see in the docs I'm supposed to use the Color Settings in
> Photoshop, but I have Elements and its Color Settings are very
> spartan. The docs tell me I can use other imaging software by studying
> the settings for Photoshop and using their equivalents in those
> applications. I do have QImage... I looked at its menus and I see some
> parallels. But I could use some help here... has anyone used Qimage
> for this particular Piezography?
> 
> I would still use Elements for its other features, cropping, sizing,
> etc. but then I would think I could print the PSD files in QImage,
> using its color settings instead.
> 
> I'm a newbie... lots to learn. Thank you all in advance!
>