QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi All,

I took a wonderful carbon printing workshop at the George Eastman House with Mark Osterman and got hooked into the fun of alternative processes. The upshot is that I am gearing up to make carbon prints in my studio in the near future. However, I need to be able to make digital negatives first. It is the only piece of the puzzle remaining to accomplish my goal.

I pretty much use Aperture exclusively for my image manipulation (with Nik plug-ins) and image file management. PhotoShop has become too laborious and costly to keep up with their update demands. Nonetheless, I do use Photoshop to print because it has a better print engine than Aperture. I do create custom profiles with my Datacolor Spyder 3 Print SR.

I plan on adopting the QTR Print Tool for all of my color Epson 3800 inkjet printing. Are there any caveats that I need to know about for color printing using QTR Print Tool?

On a final note; and more importantly, can anyone point me towards a method in which I can create my own custom profiles using the QTR Print Tool to eventually produce digital negatives?

Thank you,

Tim Burak
Pittsburgh, PA
PghArtist.com