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Re: [Digital BW] ABW vs QTR

2008-05-13 by Carl Schofield

Yes, but it would be a very warm tone as the Epson and MIS black inks  
are not neutral.  Small amounts of LM and LC are needed to neutralize  
the warm carbon inn the K, LK, and LLK inks.  Also, if you are using  
an Epson printer that has both PK and MK channels (eg. the 4000) you  
cannot access both at the same time, even with QTR.  The only way  
around this Epson firmware issue would be to have one of the blacks in  
another channel (eg. move PK to the Y channel in a 4000), but then you  
lose color printing capability.

On May 13, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Richard Smallfield wrote:

> Is there any way of using MK + PK + LK + LLK like the HP printers  
> do, in QTR?
>
> Richard
>
> At 02:56 a.m. Wednesday 14/05/2008, you wrote:
>>> No Harry, the QTR UCmk-EEnhMatte-neut curve uses small amounts of  
>>> colour
>>> inks. If you use QTRgui you can right-click on the name of the curve
>>> (in the Curve Setup dialog) to show the ink curves.
>>>
>>> To eliminate colour inks, choose the UCmk-EEnhMatte-warm curve. The
>>> 'uncoloured' grey inks produce a very warm print on EEM.

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