Digital BW, The Print

I know that this has been addressed many time here but I am unable 
to find this info in the forum archives.

The one posting from some months ago that I saved said to use "UC-
EPhotoPaper". I do not find this in the Curves choices.

Could any of you successfully using this paper, please offer your 
suggested QTR settings.

Thanks.

David Keenan
Austin, Texas

David,

The nice selection of curves is only available to 2200 users. People
with lesser printers have to work with a smaller selection. I just
spent the evening fixing my Kirkland workflow. Here's what I'm doing
on my 1280 with UT2, Eboni black (you didn't specify what you have, I
hope it's the same!)

QTR Photo Quality Glossy Paper
1440 Resolution / Better Quality
60% UT2-EPremLuster-neutral-3
40% UT2-EPremLuster-carbon-3
Ink limit, gamma = 0

This gives a coldish print. Swap to 40%/60% for a warmish print (the
differences are subtle). So far I have noticed very little difference
between paper types (Luster, Photo Quality, Premium Glossy) but you
may want to try them.

You can try printing straight to QTR like this, but I had problems
with tonal separation in the 30-40 range. You can try Roy's profile,
which works for some of my pictures but not others.

For images that need more low-end tonal separation I made a curve with
a very sharp toe that solved the problem. Here's my Kirkland curve:

0->0
29->23
35->35
40->40
64->64
128->128

I have not fine-tuned this but it should be a good start.

-Pieris
digital darkroom blog: www.pmb.net/darkroom

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "zdirk99"
<ausdlk@s...> wrote:

> 
> I know that this has been addressed many time here but I am unable 
> to find this info in the forum archives.
> 
> The one posting from some months ago that I saved said to use "UC-
> EPhotoPaper". I do not find this in the Curves choices.
> 
> Could any of you successfully using this paper, please offer your 
> suggested QTR settings.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> David Keenan
> Austin, Texas

Pieris --

I'm using the standard UC ink cartridges in my 2200 at the moment.

I did some printing last night with the following settings:

Premium Glossy Photo Paper
1440 super
Ordered
100% UCpk-EPremSemiGloss-cool
Ink Limit & Gamma = 0

and got what I thought was a decent print. Compared to the same image printed on EEM, the glossy surface
definitely provides more "snap" and "blackness". 

As expected when setting Ink Limit to +10 on a test print, there was a loss of shadow detail.

-- 
David Keenan, ausdlk@swbell.net on 2/1/2005