It is a linear system where ABW is not. It is not meant to replicate the tonals of ABW. In general, if you are printing with gamma 2.2, your shadows would be much more open than ABW (depending upon your ABW settings).
If you print with no color management (with a linearized QTR curve) and also soft-proof in Photoshop using the QTR-Gloss or QTR-Matte curves with “preserve RGB values turned on” then you should have a very very good monitor to print match.
Best,
Walker
On Nov 13, 2017, at 5:35 AM, ipm60@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Apologies, I probably didn't phrase my post properly:
I can get the different tones, the tones work absolutely fine.
My problem is that the prints with or without the tones are really heavy in the shadows compared with the epson prints.