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QTR and Premier Fine Art

QTR and Premier Fine Art

2005-01-04 by boomcha76

I have been QTR in the last few days, with the Epson 2200 and using UC inks I have come 
up with a combination that gives me an almost neutral print by using 50% Premier Fine Art 
(aka Epson Ultrasmooth) (got the profiles from Carl Schofield's site) and the 50% UC 
-Neutral profile.

 In this method I have to adjust my image with a curve is Photoshop to equal the contrast I 
want on the screen. (My screens are hardware calibrated and I do press work so I know 
everything is working properly there.

 I was wondering if there is a profile out there that allows neutral prints with this paper or 
without me having to do the curves ?

How does one go about making a custom profile for QTR?
Do you need a densitometer or anything like that?

Using Mac OS X 10.3.7 and UC inks.

Thanks,

Jorge

Re: QTR and Premier Fine Art

2005-01-04 by John Vitollo

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "boomcha76" <boomcha@r...> 
wrote:

>  I was wondering if there is a profile out there that allows neutral prints with this paper  
> without me having to do the curves ?

> Jorge

Even thought you have a 2200 try soft proofing using one of the 1270-UT2-proof files at :

http://www.harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html

I find if I soft proof then adjust image contrast and such the print matches the screen.

Re: [Digital BW] QTR and Premier Fine Art

2005-01-05 by James Haney

You can do it without a densitometer by using a scanner or even by eye, 
but I had very good luck and a minimum of fuss using an X-Rite 810 
reflective densitometer.

Basically, you can do the partitioning pretty well using the scanner 
method mentioned in the documentation, but to really hit the max 
density in the sweet spot and hit the partitioning the first time 
through it really helps to have a densitometer.

I had to laugh when Zax mentioned that part about

"After monkeying about with a number of the variables ... I reread
the instructions  yet again and realized that all that stuff about
generating curves and linearization was there for a reason."

I had a very similar experience which is why I always admonish anyone 
about to undertake making their own curves to read ALL OF THE 
DOCUMENTATION THREE TIMES before doing anything.

It is not necessarily presented sequentially, and you really need to 
understand which portions apply to your specific needs and which don't 
apply to you at all before you plow in.

James
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On Jan 4, 2005, at 3:02 PM, boomcha76 wrote:

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> I have been QTR in the last few days, with the Epson 2200 and using UC 
> inks I have come
> up with a combination that gives me an almost neutral print by using 
> 50% Premier Fine Art
> (aka Epson Ultrasmooth) (got the profiles from Carl Schofield's site) 
> and the 50% UC
> -Neutral profile.
>
>  In this method I have to adjust my image with a curve is Photoshop to 
> equal the contrast I
> want on the screen. (My screens are hardware calibrated and I do press 
> work so I know
> everything is working properly there.
>
>  I was wondering if there is a profile out there that allows neutral 
> prints with this paper or
> without me having to do the curves ?
>
> How does one go about making a custom profile for QTR?
> Do you need a densitometer or anything like that?
>
> Using Mac OS X 10.3.7 and UC inks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jorge
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