QTR-Quadtone RIP

Right. Me too. You would need a photo black. It seems to be a paper
made for K3 if your using pigments. I'm not going to mess up the
beauty of the K6 by adding a photo black. Not his year.

john



--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "studio9chik" <fotochik@g...> wrote:
>
> i just tried printing with the k7set using qtr on epson r1800 with
the crane silver rag ... no good .. lots of bronzing.  even tried
putting the glop back in.  
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" <deanwork2003@y...>
wrote:
> >
> > The NK7 inkset is designed for matte and fine art papers, not rc based
> > emulsions at all. Same with all the Piezzotone inks. However, that is
> > not going to stop me from tying it on the Crane Silver Rag. I don't
> > expect much but I'll try. There have been reports though of someone
> > trying K7 in a beta test with a Roland 12 channel printer and the Ergo
> > Soft Davinci rip to precisely control ink limits. They said the print
> > tests on Silver Rag "passed the muster", what ever that means. So I
> > guess it is not totally out of the question. Now the bronzing
> > situation, they didn't say.
> > 
> > Now the one thing that has occured to me is whether one could
> > substitue a good PK ink in the darkest slot of K7 to do glossy work.
> > That would be amazing and produce a really different and innovative
> > result. But this would destroy all the generic curves that are offered
> > so would would have to start from the beginning with designing them
> > for that combination I assume. I have a feeling someone will try that
> > in the near future. It is an obvious thing to try. But it might also
> > effect the color neutrality, which is a major reason this inkset was
> > designed the way it was in the first place. But since the PK would be
> > the darkest channel and is laying down the max black content, possibly
> > not visible color change?
> > 
> > If I had another printer and time to devote to that I would. I don't
> > right now.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Scott Hillmann shillmann@c...
wrote:
> > >
> > > I am new to NK7 ink. I am using an Epson R1800 w/ QuadtoneRIP on
Mac  
> > > OSX.  The results on matte paper are good, however the same  
> > > monochrome image printed on Epson Premium Glossy photo paper
results  
> > > in good looking prints but the top layer of ink never dries. I am  
> > > generally printing at 2880 dpi and I have not changed the ink
limit  
> > > adjustment. I select  glossy paper in the "Printer Features"
popup.  
> > > Is NK7 ink designed to work with glossy paper? Do I need to reduce  
> > > the amount of ink laid down in the ink limit adjustment? Is there   
> > > some other setting I am missing? Thanks. Scott
> > >
> >
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