Digital BW, The Print

I've tried everything back to the Epson 3000 days and the early quad
inksets (then 1200, 1270, 2000p, and now 2200).  I recently moved
over to a Mac G5 (from XP) and just gave QTR a spin on my 2200.  I was never happy
with the 2200OEM driver for B&W, even with the grey balancer, due to excessive
metamerism.

After floundering a bit on the nuances of installation under a new
environment (panther at that..), I produced my first print using the
seven color setting and 90% cool curve balance. It was beautiful!

I was totally blown away by the tonality, neutrality, and total lack
of metamerism!!! The black density is beautiful too (on EEM).  


A great big Thank You to Roy & all who've worked hard to bring this
along for all of us!!!!  Now...off to burn through some cartridges!

Rich Shelton

Roy,

When are we PC users going to see something as fantastic as the QTR?

Terry Lyons
www.TLphoto.net


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Rich Shelton" 
<rspcs@y...> wrote:
> I've tried everything back to the Epson 3000 days and the early quad
> inksets (then 1200, 1270, 2000p, and now 2200).  I recently moved
> over to a Mac G5 (from XP) and just gave QTR a spin on my 2200.  I 
was never happy
> with the 2200OEM driver for B&W, even with the grey balancer, due 
to excessive

> metamerism.
> 
> After floundering a bit on the nuances of installation under a new
> environment (panther at that..), I produced my first print using the
> seven color setting and 90% cool curve balance. It was beautiful!
> 
> I was totally blown away by the tonality, neutrality, and total lack
> of metamerism!!! The black density is beautiful too (on EEM).  
> 
> 
> A great big Thank You to Roy & all who've worked hard to bring this
> along for all of us!!!!  Now...off to burn through some cartridges!
> 
> Rich Shelton

Well, if you're a bit of a geek, you can install Linux as a dual-boot on your windows 
machine, then use GIMP as your (free) editing program, and then connect into the 
same printing drivers used on the Mac.  Definitely a lot more work, but certainly 
cheaper than buying an expensive Mac just for printing.

BTW, the Mac G5/Panther is my first Mac experience since a failed Cube/OS9 
experiment,  and I have to say it is really excellent.  I have seamless drive mapping to 
my WinXP machines (where I store all of my data), and use Microsoft Remote Desktop 
Client (RDC) for OS X to connect to my windows desktops seamlessly from the Mac.  
And...the new MAC OS is rock solid, and really grows on you.  VERY cool overall!

The Panther printer sharing between Mac and PC is supposed to be seamless too -- It 
is much more difficult to get working than drive sharing, but can be done more or 
less.  In some cases, you lose some functionality when printing across different 
environments.

Rich

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Terry" <teelions@y...> 
wrote:

> Roy,
> 
> When are we PC users going to see something as fantastic as the QTR?
> 
> Terry Lyons
> www.TLphoto.net
>