Digital BW, The Print

I usually sit in the background and learn from all the good discussion
here.  As a result of this, I've just started experimenting with Jon
Cone's neutral K7 inks.  Like a recent poster, I've been getting
better prints with EEM, which I use as a proofing paper, over the HPR
which I prefer to use.  In my case, I find the HPR prints somewhat too
dark, and in some cases the prints are actually wavy in the inked
area.  Does this mean (as I suspect) that the canned QTR K7 profile
isn't working for my printer, and that I need to work on ink limits? 
Is this likely solely an ink limits thing, or could linearization be a
factor too?  All this is pretty new to me (I was using ABW and K3 inks
before), and the new settings are just a little befuddling.

Thanks in advance,

-Gary Gervin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "minoltaretrobug" <e-gg@...> 
wrote:
>
> I usually sit in the background and learn from all the good discussion
> here.  As a result of this, I've just started experimenting with Jon
> Cone's neutral K7 inks.  Like a recent poster, I've been getting
> better prints with EEM, which I use as a proofing paper, over the HPR
> which I prefer to use.  In my case, I find the HPR prints somewhat too
> dark, and in some cases the prints are actually wavy in the inked
> area.  Does this mean (as I suspect) that the canned QTR K7 profile
> isn't working for my printer, and that I need to work on ink limits? 
> Is this likely solely an ink limits thing, or could linearization be a
> factor too?  All this is pretty new to me (I was using ABW and K3 inks
> before), and the new settings are just a little befuddling.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Gary Gervin
>

This is contrary to my experience with K7, Neutral, Mac OS 10.4.11.  I, too, use EEM for 
proofing and HPR (308) for final prints.  The correlation between the two is excellent.

So,
Mac or Windows?
Assigned profile?
Working space Gamma 1.8 or 2.2?
PS version?
QTR version?
CRT or LCD?

I.e., more details might provide a clue.

Harry

We use QTR a bit differently. For examples the profiles I made which
you are using can not be adjusted, so please read the short primers I
published under Piezography Chronicles on the Learn Piezography web
page here:

http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.362672/sc.24/.f


regards,

Jon Cone

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "minoltaretrobug"
<e-gg@...> wrote:

>
> I usually sit in the background and learn from all the good discussion
> here.  As a result of this, I've just started experimenting with Jon
> Cone's neutral K7 inks.  Like a recent poster, I've been getting
> better prints with EEM, which I use as a proofing paper, over the HPR
> which I prefer to use.  In my case, I find the HPR prints somewhat too
> dark, and in some cases the prints are actually wavy in the inked
> area.  Does this mean (as I suspect) that the canned QTR K7 profile
> isn't working for my printer, and that I need to work on ink limits? 
> Is this likely solely an ink limits thing, or could linearization be a
> factor too?  All this is pretty new to me (I was using ABW and K3 inks
> before), and the new settings are just a little befuddling.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Gary Gervin
>