QTR-Quadtone RIP

For me as a printmaker for artists it has always come back to the inks regardless of what output system I’ve used (and I’ve used 5 different systems for printing Piezography ink so far).

Piezography curves are built for piezography inks and a specific standard of tonal reproduction that we all sort-of define as “Piezography". There is a real complex relationship between how the curves are made and the chemistry at play within the inks that I’m only starting to realize now that I work here but that I was a beneficiary of for over a decade. That really is what makes a piezography print: the inks and their underlying relationship per tonal value. Remember, Piezography has gone through many iterations: Iris Quad, Roland (whateverK# you want), image print dual quad, iQuad, bw ICC, Studioprint: k6, dual quad, k7, k8(with some people doing dual GO), QTR k6/k7,upcoming dualQuad. In each of these cases Jon and the team has made a system capable of creating an image that lives up to the standard set out for Piezography. It’s not just QTR . . . it’s an artistic ethos that starts at the ink and goes through the multiple generations of piezo print-head technology. It’s been around for a long time. This company started putting pigment ink into epson printers before epson was, and was doing inkjet before epson came out with the first home-use photo-quality printers. Even back then there was monochrome ink overlaps happening that related to ink chemistry and that started to define the parameters of a “Piezography” print. I think people forget the long history of how Piezography came to be defined.

QuadtoneRIP is certainly the most flexible system and has the potential when refined specifically for what ink is being used to attain a level of quality that is on-par with (or higher than) previous more closed systems. Certainly we’ve discovered this in our recent invention of a profiled negative system that finally attains that needed level of tonal reproduction. :) my two cents.

best,
Walker




> On Apr 8, 2016, at 10:05 AM, brian_downunda@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> It's rather late here and I have an overly big day tomorrow.  I just wanted to say that I didn't think that we were arguing.  I was just contributing an additional perspective, which was what I've read Jon say about the reasons for the uniqueness of his system.  Ultimately the beauty of it is in the eye of the beholder of the prints, or not as the case may be.  As I note on my blog, opinion is divided.
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> ---In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com <mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>, <richard@...> wrote :
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> Brian, I am not arguing with you here. Those were just some mostly rhetorical questions to point out that that Piezography isn't just one thing. It is a whole system. 
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