Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Nemo,

How would I get a copy of that profile? I looked at the ICC profiles
on the Piezography BW ICC CD but they all seem to be for paper.

Also, you used quad inks? Doesn't that mean four? But this printer
uses one black cart and one color cart - and the color cart apparently
has five compartments, which can be either the various CMY colors or
five different shades of the black. Gotta warn you all... I'm a real
newbie, so I'm likely to ask some very basic questions here!

As for Photoshop Element's color settings, there are basically only
three choices, and they are between some very generalized settings.
Really not much to work with there, so I think Elements is out of the
question. And I really hate to spend several hundred dollars on
Photoshop just for that feature, I'm aiming for simplicity.

Thanks again,

Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Nemo Niemann"
<nemophoto@...> wrote:
>
> 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!
> >
>