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Re: R2400, QTR, NK7 inks and dark prints

2008-04-29 by Jon Cone

We use QTR a bit differently. For examples the profiles I made which
you are using can not be adjusted, so please read the short primers I
published under Piezography Chronicles on the Learn Piezography web
page here:

http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.362672/sc.24/.f


regards,

Jon Cone

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "minoltaretrobug"
<e-gg@...> wrote:
>
> I usually sit in the background and learn from all the good discussion
> here.  As a result of this, I've just started experimenting with Jon
> Cone's neutral K7 inks.  Like a recent poster, I've been getting
> better prints with EEM, which I use as a proofing paper, over the HPR
> which I prefer to use.  In my case, I find the HPR prints somewhat too
> dark, and in some cases the prints are actually wavy in the inked
> area.  Does this mean (as I suspect) that the canned QTR K7 profile
> isn't working for my printer, and that I need to work on ink limits? 
> Is this likely solely an ink limits thing, or could linearization be a
> factor too?  All this is pretty new to me (I was using ABW and K3 inks
> before), and the new settings are just a little befuddling.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Gary Gervin
>

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