Digital BW, The Print

Hello All!

Is anyone doing BO with an Epson 4800 and a RIP?  (Especially QTR?) How 
do the results (smoothness, Dmax) compare with BO on a 2200, or a 220?  
I print mostly ABW on the 4800, but there are times I like BO for 
the "glow".  Right now I use an old 2000P and Eboni for BO... I'd love 
to go bigger, though, and also get finer dots, if I can do it without 
losing the BO look.  I've never tried QTR, but this could be the 
project that gets me started, if it sounds like the results would be 
worth it!

Thanks!

John Broski

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "johnbroski57" 
<jbroski@...> wrote:
>
> Hello All!
> 
> Is anyone doing BO with an Epson 4800 and a RIP?  (Especially QTR?) 
How 
> do the results (smoothness, Dmax) compare with BO on a 2200, or a 
220?  
> I print mostly ABW on the 4800, but there are times I like BO for 
> the "glow".  Right now I use an old 2000P and Eboni for BO... I'd 
love 
> to go bigger, though, and also get finer dots, if I can do it 
without 
> losing the BO look.  I've never tried QTR, but this could be the 
> project that gets me started, if it sounds like the results would 
be 
> worth it!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John Broski
>

I'm currently investigating 4800 with MK vs Piezo iQuads Museum K. 
That's just for the sake of curiosity : my true interest is to 
investigate whether K3 PK is a viable glossy BW solution.

Dmax on EEM so far is higher with K3 : 1,73. 

Partitionning of K3 with QTR gives a strange curve, however I've not 
yet profiled the output nor printed an image. I have not yet either 
done the settings with HPR.

Maybe someone else can report K3 vs Eboni. 
QTR is a nice solution for BW at an unbeatable price.

Olivier