QTR-Quadtone RIP

Well it makes total sense that someone would develop a user friendly system for this as alternative process options are becoming so popular these days all over the world.. It’s just your video really confused me.

Congratulations Richard. I also realize that the best printmakers with good ideas are not always the best promoters and sales people! That’s a fact.

Hell if I were a software geek, which I will never be, I’d have set something like this up long ago because QTR is perfect for it. All the literature and workflow for making digital negs with Oem inks that I’ve seen is way too confusing for most students. 

Personally I’m finally getting set up with k7 DN Piezography to make my own negs with,  and their documentation and materials are the best I’ve seen. Once it’s set up it is easy and they have a great library of curves made. I also know how smooth the ramp potential and resolution capabilities are from doing prints with these inks for the last 17 years. But there are people who want to do the occasional platinum print or van dyke  and want to experiment with processes before they invest in a printer and system like that. 

I’ve experimented with Burkholders template and the Bostic and Sullivan workflow and achieving accurate mid tone mid tone separation requires a lot of time and materials to be wasted. Most people give up. But even that is well beyond the trials we used to go through with shooting, developing, and contact printing large format camera negs, though a lot of outstanding work was done that way ( Jan Groover for instance.)

John