Digital BW, The Print

Hi,
first, as an aside, Roy, thanks so much for this QTR software that has saved my bacon. I live on an invalid benefit, and am in debt to VISA for all my ink and paper ... but will pay for QTR as soon as finances permit. 

I'm getting perfect tones from QTR and was getting very accurate colour on EEM ... then I put in the glossy K cart, printed a colour portrait and .... it was totally blue! Why, why, why, when Matte K on EEM was so damned good?

Any help?

thanks,
Rich
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   "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, 
   is to fill the world with fools."
   --Herbert Spencer

Do you mean that you printed a full colour image? QTR only supports BW
images. Or do you mean that you printed a grayscale image saved as RGB? 
Which profile and what paper did you use?

I'd expect printing with the glossy K would give you less than ideal 
results unless you have a profile specifically designed for it. It's 
different in tone from the matte K, and has much weaker DMAX on matte 
papers.

If you send me some details I'll see if I can make a profile for your 
ink and paper comination.

--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no


Richard Smallfield wrote:

> I'm getting perfect tones from QTR and was getting very accurate
> colour on EEM ... then I put in the glossy K cart, printed a colour
> portrait and .... it was totally blue! Why, why, why, when Matte K on
> EEM was so damned good?
> 
> Any help?

Hi Daniel,
thanks for replying.

Sorry to be OT. It was a colour photo taken by a friend - a nice colour portrait. I was using the Epson driver, not QTR. It was probably in sRGB as it was only a Sony Cybershot camera.

It's ironic that the hardware is so good, but the Epson software is so bad. 

At 02:09 AM Saturday 12/11/2004, you wrote:
>If you send me some details I'll see if I can make a profile for your 
>ink and paper comination.

Thanks very much - I'll do so in future if I need to.


Richard

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   "He is one of those people who would be enormously 
   improved by death." 
   --H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

Ah, so we're talking about the Epson driver misbehaving when printing
color images :) I thought you were using QTR...

You should try the latest Epson profiles for the 2100. They're really
good. I even get very accurate colors with the MIS 7600 Ultrachrome
compatible inkset when I use these profiles.

Contact me off list if you continue to have problems. Could be that 
you're getting double profiling somehow.

Richard Smallfield wrote:

> Hi Daniel, thanks for replying.
> 
> Sorry to be OT. It was a colour photo taken by a friend - a nice
> colour portrait. I was using the Epson driver, not QTR. It was
> probably in sRGB as it was only a Sony Cybershot camera.
> 
> It's ironic that the hardware is so good, but the Epson software is
> so bad.
> 
> At 02:09 AM Saturday 12/11/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> If you send me some details I'll see if I can make a profile for
>> your ink and paper comination.
> 
> 
> Thanks very much - I'll do so in future if I need to.