QTR-Quadtone RIP

Yes, you can flood the 'paper' (you can even flood real paper), and you 
can use just one cartridge. just disable the others (I think). Its a 
long time since I tried making digital negatives.


On 10/12/2013 18:14, beefyzee@... wrote:
>
> Sorry guys but now I can't post replies with any of the "reply" 
> buttons. I cannot believe what Yahoo have gone and done with Yahoo 
> Groups, they've completely messed it up.
>
> First of all thanks for your inputs.
>
> I checked out that print group and the owner appears rather stringent 
> about only users of PDN being members. If my quest for the perfect 
> inkjet negative fails I'll shoot him an email. There are inks (black) 
> dedicated to making film positives. One such brand is "Black Max". 
> They are supposed to be very fast drying. My idea is to centrifuge the 
> original ink out of the cartridges then fill all cartridges with this 
> ink, block the outlet holes then centrifuge again to get all the air 
> bubbles out. I've done the latter numerous times when refilling 
> cartridges, works great. For now though I'm just playing with finding 
> the best control of depositing max ink.
>
> Having viewed many screenprinting threads, they always talk about 
> achieving the max deposition of ink to get the opacity on their film 
> positives.
>
> I had a quick read of the calibration PDF and if I've got it correct 
> it seems you can just about make QTR flood the print material. 
> That sounds like what I need LOL.
>
> Regarding the print material absorbing the ink, many people have 
> talked about the quality of the film positive material. Seems the high 
> quality transparencies which are specifically designed for this 
> purpose take the ink much better and dry very fast, whereas a general 
> cheapy inkjet transparency can give comparatively atrocious results.
>
> I'm wondering now if QTR can just "fire" the black cartridge, so I 
> don't have to fill all cartridges with the black screenprinting ink.
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> Keith.
>
> 

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