I see. My experience with Epson is that prior to the introduction of the abw, working on a 4000, I printed quite a bit of pictures using matte black only with the epson driver, and the scattering of dots in the highlights clearly showed that it was indeed black only. That was before discovering qtr. I think it should behave the same with the newer printers cause bo option is for printing out drafts of texts, mostly.
Another interesting option with the x800 and x880 serie was (and is, maybe) the gutenprint driver because it was able to get very fine control of density and more resolution that the standard driver, being 2880x2880 with the 4800. If I remember correctly it lets you choose an ink "model" and a specific dithering algorithm. Unfortunately the user interface is rather difficult to understand, at least for me, but I managed to get a couple of setups working.
All the best
S.
Il gio 25 ott 2018, 20:50 David Kachel david@davidkachel.com [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> ha scritto:
Simone,
I agree. What I am looking for is a set of "training wheels" I can offer
to novices.
QTR is absolutely the way to go. I also need to understand the training
wheel used by others so I can more fully explain why QTR is the better
option.
On 10/25/18 11:21 AM, Simone Simoncini ssimoncini@...
[QuadtoneRIP] wrote:
> The 4000 and 4800 have the black only option. Yes it is black only.
> Still it is, imho, easier to rely on a bo curve with qtr.
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