On Wednesday, August 18, 2004, at 01:16 PM, edwin3333 wrote:
> Are there any inks that don't bronze on the RC papers? If so are
> there any .quad profiles for the 2200 running on windows?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Edwin
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
> <scho@m...> wrote:
>> Answers to some of your questions:
>> 1) Use the OFB profiles for your RC papers, assuming you have the
> Photo
>> black ink installed in your 2200.
>> 2) Don't know how you handle this with the PC version, but I find
> that
>> no special paper feed instructions are necessary with the OS X
> version
>> (printing from Photoshop) - just load the paper manually in the
> rear
>> feed slot and print as usual.
>> 3) I have profiles for Epson Premium Semigloss that were made under
> OS
>> X, but I think the .quad files should work fine with QTRPC as well
>> since all of the other profiles you have were also made using
> QTROSX.
>> Send me an email if you want to try them. You should be aware that
> the
>> Epson UC inks bronze quite badly on all of the RC papers,
> particularly
>> when printing B&W. You can eliminate some of this by spraying the
>> prints later with PremierArt PrintShield. I also have a neutral
>> profile for printing on RC papers that uses only the LK, LC, and LM
>> inks (no black ink used) so you could keep the matte black loaded
> for
>> printing to matte papers and not have to switch to Photo black for
>> printing to RC papers. You won't get as high a dmax with this "no
>> black ink" profile, but for most images it works OK (dmax about
> 1.77 on
>> semimatte and luster).
>> 4) Can't help you with this one.
>> 5) No. The cool profiles use K, LK, LC, and LM only. The warm
>> profiles use K and LK only. Sepia uses K, LK, LM, and Y.
> Generally
>> the amounts of the "toner" inks (LM, LC, and Y) used are quite
> small -
>> hence no metamerism.
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Beau wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> This is my first posting to the group - thanks for being there!
> After
>>> Roy was kind enough to help me with a glitch (my fault!) I
> finally got
>>> QTR for Windoze to print for me and I'm impressed! I used Epson
>>> Enhanced Matte paper and the print is as neutral as Switzerland!
> Roy
>>> did a great job. Since he's out of town for a week, I thought I
> might
>>> run a few questions by the group if I may.
>>>
>>> 1) I'm one of those weird people who like to print B&W on glossy
> paper
>>> (I like how the blacks look) and there's obviously no profile for
>>> Epson's PGP. Is it inadviseable to use the EM profile but stick
> glossy
>>> paper in the printer? Might I experience a meltdown and catch my
> hair
>>> on fire?
>>>
>>> 2) I'm fuzzy on how one might use larger paper sizes loaded from
> the
>>> manual slot behind the printer. When using Epson's driver, I have
> to
>>> tell it to pull the paper from the rear, and while I see in the
> batch
>>> file QTR supports bigger paper sizes, I can't see where to tell
> it to
>>> pull that paper from the manual feed slot in the back of the
> printer.
>>>
>>> 3) Probably only Roy could answer this, but is support for
> either of
>>> Epson's Semi-gloss or Premium Lustre papers in the works?
>>>
>>> 4) I tried using the QTR GUI this morning too and it almost
> worked!
>>> The printer only printed about 3/4ths of the print though and
> stopped.
>>>
>>> 5) Does QTR use all of the Epson inks to get such a neutral print?
>>>
>>> Finally a last observation. A couple of month's ago, due to the
> 2200's
>>> less than stellar B&W performance with Epson drivers, I bought an
> HP
>>> 7960 printer and was totally blown away by the B&W prints. Even
> though
>>> QTR seems to perform as "advertised", I still prefer the HP
> prints. I
>>> suspect that's a paper issue for me though and not the fault of
> QTR.
>>> To me, the HP papers look better than Epson's Enhanced Matte
> paper.
>>> HP's "matte" looks more like Epson's Premium Luster to me, and
> HP's
>>> "pro" glossy papers just look amazing. Again, I suspect this is
>>> perhaps just a personal preference thing - some may like Enhance
>>> Matte, but I'm just not a big fan - I find the tonal gradations
> of the
>>> HP/Glossy combination look better to my eye and thus my question
> about
>>> using different papers with QTR.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions/comments. Ol' Roy deserves
> a
>>> medal! ;-)
>>>
>>> beau :)
>
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