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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Exporting B&W images from Lightroom 4 and printing with QTR

2013-08-13 by David Kachel

I'm relatively new to QTR myself, but I work up my images in Photoshop,
Prophoto space, in color, even though they are destined to be monotone
images (I have my own workflow for B&W). I don't convert them to B&W and
have been printing them straight to QTR with carbon inks in a dedicated
printer and getting fantastic results so far. Still some work to do yet,
butŠ
I tried ABW and it was a joke compared to what you can do with QTR and full
B&W inks.
You do want Gamma to be 2.2 throughout your workflow. Otherwise, the print
will be farther off from what you see on the screen than what it needs to
be. It won't do any damage that I am aware of, you will just not have
anything close to WYSIWYG.

From:  moose1581 <Wakoenig@...>
Reply-To:  <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>
Date:  Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:47 PM
To:  <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>
Subject:  [QuadtoneRIP] Exporting B&W images from Lightroom 4 and printing
with QTR

I know that QTR wants gray scale images with a gamma of 2.2, but Lightroom
uses Prophoto color space with a gamma of 1.8
I'd like to hear what others on this list are doing in regards to this
issue.

David Kachel

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