Paul,
Reading this and your other recent thread it may be interesting to retry Qimage Ultimate again as the application to print from. The QTR ICC (RGB versions) (with ACV curves) remained compatible while Adobe got weak knees facing Apple. So did target printing. The extrapolation algorithms and smart sharpening have always been excellent and you can apply a print filter on the fly so print without the need for creating an extra file. The Qimage curves tool is not exactly my taste but sufficient enough for adapting the linearity in a print filter. Files are not touched in any sense.
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
Dinkla Grafische Techniek
Quad, piëzografie, giclée
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Dinkla Grafische Techniek
Quad, piëzografie, giclée
www.pigment-print.com
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:18 PM, roark.paul@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
This setup is giving me more surprises. Who would have thought the Advanced B&W printing mode would make the best print?
Smoothness of a test strip might be subjective, but so far this ABW with the Eboni-6 setup (draft PDF at http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/3880-Eboni-6.pdf) (and probably any other high-K monotone) seems to be the smoothest print I've seen on a matte paper. It may be the driver is using only the smallest dots and maybe some different dithering pattern.On Epson Hot Press Natural, I'm getting a 1.78 dmax, which is higher than the "color" Epson driver output and probably on a par with QTR.The sharpness of the test strip is due to my use of a low res test strip combined with what looks like "next neighbor" up-res'ing to the native printer resolution. I could get the same look out of QTR by using PS to do a "next neighbor" image size increase to 360 dpi.And ICCs (made via QTR Create ICC-RGB) work fine with Win7, PS CC and ABW.FWIWPaulPaulRoark.com -- Paul Roark's Photographic HomePaulRoark.com -- Paul Roark's Photographic HomePaul Roark Black and White PhotographyPreview by Yahoo