Digital BW, The Print

Hey Everyone!

I have been trying out the QuadTone RIP and so far I am quite 
impressed! The supplied profiles are working quite nicely on my Epson 
1280 loaded with UT2 inks. I love the blending curves option.

I have run in to one bug that someone may know the solution to:

I have made several Presets in the print dialog box but for some reason 
none of my presets will stick. Meaning, I will configure all my 
settings and save them as a preset but when I later go to use the 
preset none of my selected settings come up. The settings that where 
used for the last print stay in place no matter what preset I select. I 
have lots of other presets for the Epson driver that work fine.

Also, since QTR does not employ the Epson driver does anyone know if my 
ink usage is still reflected properly in the Epson Printer Utility when 
using the QTR with pre filled carts?

Thanks for any ideas on the above!

-Jeff

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Magidson <jef.jef@v...> 
wrote:
> Hey Everyone!
> 
> I have been trying out the QuadTone RIP and so far I am quite 
> impressed! The supplied profiles are working quite nicely on my Epson 
> 1280 loaded with UT2 inks. I love the blending curves option.
> 
> I have run in to one bug that someone may know the solution to:
> 
> I have made several Presets in the print dialog box but for some reason 
> none of my presets will stick. Meaning, I will configure all my 
> settings and save them as a preset but when I later go to use the 
> preset none of my selected settings come up. The settings that where 
> used for the last print stay in place no matter what preset I select. I 
> have lots of other presets for the Epson driver that work fine.
> 
> Also, since QTR does not employ the Epson driver does anyone know if my 
> ink usage is still reflected properly in the Epson Printer Utility when 
> using the QTR with pre filled carts?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas on the above!
> 
> -Jeff

Hi Jeff,

The Presets in Jaguar seem to have a weird combination of last value
and the preset value.  One thing that I found that help often was to
have a different printer selected beforehand, then select which Preset 
and then select the desired Printer.  The changing of the Printer 
seemed to reset the "last value" settings.   I'm now using Panther and
the Presets are much more consistent with this version.

The ink usage is kept track of in the printer so, yes, you should be
able to use the Utility regardless of which driver you use.

Roy

Are there more film profiles in either the Standard or Pro version of 
VueScan than the ones that are included with with the 
evaluation/trial version ?

I mainly use Illford Pan-F or Delta 100 and apparently these are not 
included with the trial version.

I am scanning with a Nikon Coolscan V and I started looking at 
VueScan because the Nikon 4 scanning software clips the highlights 
and was hoping VueScan would help eliminate this problem.

I have tried many substitute profiles including the generic setting 
in VueScan but the Historam never looks quite right.

Thanks
Tim

The paid versions of Vuescan are identical to the trial version except
they don't put the $$$ all over the image. 

It seems that profiles for specific b&w films just are not needed in
Vuescan. You will notice some very popular films (Tri-X, HP5, Plus-X,
FP4) lacking a profile. So long as you're capturing all the data
without the end points being clipped, you've got everything you need
to begin working in Photoshop. 

Just concentrate on capturing all the data in the scan and then do
your adjustments in PS. My experience is that a great looking
histogram in the scan will probably lose some data, not what you want. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tim Goodwin
<tgvoz@p...> wrote:

> Are there more film profiles in either the Standard or Pro version of 
> VueScan than the ones that are included with with the 
> evaluation/trial version ?
> 
> I mainly use Illford Pan-F or Delta 100 and apparently these are not 
> included with the trial version.
> 
> I am scanning with a Nikon Coolscan V and I started looking at 
> VueScan because the Nikon 4 scanning software clips the highlights 
> and was hoping VueScan would help eliminate this problem.
> 
> I have tried many substitute profiles including the generic setting 
> in VueScan but the Historam never looks quite right.
> 
> Thanks
> Tim