Digital BW, The Print

I have two Epsom 2200 printers running emson's color inks. In the two years I 
have own them I have not had any serous head clogging problems, now both 
printers are clogged. No matter what I do I can't clear the heads.

 Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks

I was doing fine with my 1280 and MIS inks. Then I got 2200..with Epson 
inks. I get hues. I need your best work flow. I scan BW negs. I am a BW 
darkoom person and tech is hard for me. Be kind...and thanks!!-sm

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> I was doing fine with my 1280 and MIS inks. Then I got 
> 2200..with Epson inks. I get hues. I need your best work 
> flow. I scan BW negs. I am a BW darkoom person and tech is 
> hard for me. Be kind...and thanks!!-sm
> 

Steven,

Lots of options for you but assuming you are getting your negs scanned and
into Photoshop okay, do the following:

- You don't say if you are on a MAC or PC, but the best thing to do would be
to download Quadtone RIP from <http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html>.

- If on a PC, go to the XP page and download from there.

- Install the RIP.

- Scan your negs as you normally do and bring them in to Photoshop as you
normally do.  Then...

- ASSIGN the QTR Linear Gray profile

- Crop, spot, curves, levels, etc. as you normally would.  Re-size as you
normally would to the correct ppi for output to your printer and image size
for size of print you want.

- Final step before you save and print the output file is to CONVERT the
image to QTR Matte Gray if you are printing with matte black ink (MK) on
matte paper.

- Or CONVERT to QTR Photo Gray if you are printing with photo black ink (PK)
on semi-gloss or gloss paper.

- I work on a PC so once I have done this, I save this file as my print
file, uncompressed TIFF.

- You can then drag this image file to your QTR Gui interface and QTR will
print the image.  Select a warm and cool curve from the drop-down box and
you can play with different percentages to get the type of print you want,
cool, neutral or warm.

- If you're on a MAC, I believe you can "print normally" from within
Photoshop.  But I haven't done that since I don't have a MAC.

Have fun.

I think you will find with QTR that you can get excellent, neutral output
with the standard OEM Ultrachrome ink set.

Many people have done the steps above and have reported they can get a
neutral print with the 2200 shortly after installing QTR.  Start with EEM
paper and the EEM cool and warm curves.  Set the slider to 70% cool and see
what you get.

Paul