Digital BW, The Print

I have pulled my first tests with QTR on the Epson 2200 and they are  
wonderfully neutral.  They are, however, a little light and don't match the 
monitor tonality or the density of the same (greenish) image printed with the 
Epson driver.  I'm printing on Velvet Fine Art and I've used both the EEM and 
PFA profiles with little or no difference in density.  I dropped a contrasty curve 
layer on the image in CS to see if the paper could actually print at a higher 
density and it did.  

Is there a simple way of increasing the density and contrast in QTR?  There are 
"Expert" setting options in the QTR driver, but I don't know when or how to 
access them.  I'd like to know if it's possible to achieve simple(?) density and 
contrast adjustments before getting into what looks like a serious learning 
curve to produce profiles for Epson and non-Epson inks.

Thanks,

peter

Have you converted your images to "QTR Gray Matte" profile before 
printing? If not give it a try!
You can find the QTR gray profiles at the following address (file 
grayspace.zip):

http://homepage.mac.com/royharrington/FileSharing2.html

Bye
Marco

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "krn_ptr" 
<krn_ptr@y...> wrote:
> 
> I have pulled my first tests with QTR on the Epson 2200 and they 
are  
> wonderfully neutral.  They are, however, a little light and don't 
match the 
> monitor tonality or the density of the same (greenish) image 
printed with the 
> Epson driver.  I'm printing on Velvet Fine Art and I've used both 
the EEM and 
> PFA profiles with little or no difference in density.  I dropped a 
contrasty curve 
> layer on the image in CS to see if the paper could actually print 
at a higher 
> density and it did.  
> 
> Is there a simple way of increasing the density and contrast in 
QTR?  There are 
> "Expert" setting options in the QTR driver, but I don't know when 
or how to 
> access them.  I'd like to know if it's possible to achieve simple
(?) density and 
> contrast adjustments before getting into what looks like a serious 
learning 

> curve to produce profiles for Epson and non-Epson inks.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> peter

No, I haven't.  I'm just switching mode to grayscale.  I'll give it a try, Marco.  
Thanks.  

But is there a way to make small adjustments in the driver?

peter


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Ristuccia" <
marco.ristuccia@l...> wrote:

> 
> Have you converted your images to "QTR Gray Matte" profile before 
> printing? If not give it a try!
> You can find the QTR gray profiles at the following address (file 
> grayspace.zip):
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/royharrington/FileSharing2.html
> 
> Bye
> Marco
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "krn_ptr" 
> <krn_ptr@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > I have pulled my first tests with QTR on the Epson 2200 and they 
> are  
> > wonderfully neutral.  They are, however, a little light and don't 
> match the 
> > monitor tonality or the density of the same (greenish) image 
> printed with the 
> > Epson driver.  I'm printing on Velvet Fine Art and I've used both 
> the EEM and 
> > PFA profiles with little or no difference in density.  I dropped a 
> contrasty curve 
> > layer on the image in CS to see if the paper could actually print 
> at a higher 
> > density and it did.  
> > 
> > Is there a simple way of increasing the density and contrast in 
> QTR?  There are 
> > "Expert" setting options in the QTR driver, but I don't know when 
> or how to 
> > access them.  I'd like to know if it's possible to achieve simple
> (?) density and 
> > contrast adjustments before getting into what looks like a serious 
> learning 
> > curve to produce profiles for Epson and non-Epson inks.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > peter