Digital BW, The Print

A am ready to purchase a stylus 4000 (you know the price in Europe...), 
for printing mostly B&W. My idea is to use the so well appreciated QTR 
RIP.

Since I am living in France, there is no real exchange between 
photographers as in the US and I never had a chance to look at a print 
printed with such configuration (I mean on a 4000 or 2200/2100 with 
QTR).

My previous configuration (what a hassle!) was an Epson 1160 with MIS 
FSN, piezography plug in and permanent banding, cloggs and so one... As 
a result I've stopped printing for more than one year. 

Do you think I am on the good way with the combination of a 4000 
together with QTR and that I will be able to print A3/A2 pics with the 
same quality as the ones I've painfully obtained with the Epson 1160 
and the MIS inks (when it worked)?

Thank you for your help in getting me convinced that I am not again 
making a stupid decision with at the end, a big frustration, because my 
goal is to print pictures that I love and not to become a printer 
guru...

JM Humbert
Paris, France

I think that you are on the good way even without QTR.

My 4000 B&W prints are constantly mistaken for darkroom prints by printing experts.  The 
tone in cold though, which I like.

I have little experience with QTR, though I did start the Yahoo QTR group.  I have only 
experimented with it a bit.  To date I can only say that it does seem to work in the sense of 
permitting a variety of different print tones.

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jean-Marc Humbert" 
<humbertjm@y...> wrote:

> 
> A am ready to purchase a stylus 4000 (you know the price in Europe...), 
> for printing mostly B&W. My idea is to use the so well appreciated QTR 
> RIP.
> 
> Since I am living in France, there is no real exchange between 
> photographers as in the US and I never had a chance to look at a print 
> printed with such configuration (I mean on a 4000 or 2200/2100 with 
> QTR).
> 
> My previous configuration (what a hassle!) was an Epson 1160 with MIS 
> FSN, piezography plug in and permanent banding, cloggs and so one... As 
> a result I've stopped printing for more than one year. 
> 
> Do you think I am on the good way with the combination of a 4000 
> together with QTR and that I will be able to print A3/A2 pics with the 
> same quality as the ones I've painfully obtained with the Epson 1160 
> and the MIS inks (when it worked)?
> 
> Thank you for your help in getting me convinced that I am not again 
> making a stupid decision with at the end, a big frustration, because my 
> goal is to print pictures that I love and not to become a printer 
> guru...
> 
> JM Humbert
> Paris, France

Jean-Marc,

Je viens d'acheter la combinaison dont vous parlez: 4000+QTR. I am a 
very finicky worker from the wet darkroom, with unsharp masks, 
thiocarbamide toning, selenium... I am absolutely delighted with the 
printer: the output looks better to my eye than what I can do in the 
wet. B.t.w. the B&W output using the Epson driver looks good only under 
one light source: wild metamerisms.

If you want to see a print, I would be happy to send you one.

Frank


On Apr 22, 2005, at 5:50 AM, Jean-Marc Humbert wrote:

>
>  A am ready to purchase a stylus 4000 (you know the price in 
> Europe...),
>  for printing mostly B&W. My idea is to use the so well appreciated QTR
>  RIP.
>
>  Since I am living in France, there is no real exchange between
>  photographers as in the US and I never had a chance to look at a print
>  printed with such configuration (I mean on a 4000 or 2200/2100 with
>  QTR).
>
>  My previous configuration (what a hassle!) was an Epson 1160 with MIS
>  FSN, piezography plug in and permanent banding, cloggs and so one... 
> As
>  a result I've stopped printing for more than one year.
>
>  Do you think I am on the good way with the combination of a 4000
>  together with QTR and that I will be able to print A3/A2 pics with the
>  same quality as the ones I've painfully obtained with the Epson 1160
>  and the MIS inks (when it worked)?
>
>  Thank you for your help in getting me convinced that I am not again
>  making a stupid decision with at the end, a big frustration, because 
> my
>  goal is to print pictures that I love and not to become a printer
>  guru...
>
>  JM Humbert
>  Paris, France
>
>
Frank Döring
901 Cramer Ave.
Lexington, KY 40502
U.S.A.
http://www.doeringphoto.com


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