Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Tochterman" <alantochterman@...> wrote:
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> Dear Terry:
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> A gentleman named Matt Chapin has produced a nice set of profiles for luster paper.  You will need to join the QTR group.  Once in, you can go to files, profiles and they will be there. 
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> P.S.  I have also had good luck with the Costco Glossy paper using the profiles. 
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> Good Luck
>

Paul, Roger & Alan,

Thanks for your responses.  I have downloaded Matt's curve for Pearl paper and printed 6 variations with great BxW tones (warm, cool, with and w/o gloss, etc) on my Epson Luster thinking this may be close and I could modify his curves.  

Two issues: 1) I get very heavy bronzing in all cases and 2)when I open Curve Creator and try to open an existing profile, I get an Ink Descriptor File Error Window that has various entries like Error in Ink Descriptor in Line 95 and up to 7 or 8 of these type of line items...when I close out this window nothing loads up.  I've tried many profiles to open and always the same...the rest of QTR works fine...so is this a bug or am I missing something?

I agree the R800 is not great for B&W, but I prefer a warm tone print and am able to get some nice results with duotone or curves or H/S/L settings.

I'll try Paul's suggestion on setting up a curve from scratch as well.

I want to learn QTR also for a future printer and making inkjet digital negatives.

Thanks again, Terry