QTR-Quadtone RIP

Eric, I feel your pain. I have the Selenium ICC inks in my 7000 --
220ml cart still about half full -- and I have no intention of
trashing perfectly good inks so I can get the latest K6.
(Cone/Inkjetmall have come out with so many inks in recent time that
I've almost given up trying to keep up with what they consider the
latest/greatest.)

I've found the best dither pattern (for me) seems to be the Adaptive
Hybrid pattern with the speed set on "Better", rather than "Speed". My
only negative is that the prints don't seem to have the same "snap" I
had/have with the Cone ICC profiles for the 7000 and the Hahnemuhle
William Turner. 

Hope this helps. QTR is a good program, but definitely requires a lot
of experimentation and a bit of a learning curve. Now my one wish is
that I could print directly from an app to QTR, since I never sharpen
my images until time of actual output.

Nemo

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "platinumeric" <eric@...> wrote:
>
> I am looking for a little help getting started with my 7000 and 
> running the Cone/Sepia set of inks.  I am not looking to change ink 
> sets as I have customers that are looking for that tonal range in 
> their prints. I am currently running Image Print with these inks but 
> due to their lack of support for these inks and Inkjet mall also not 
> supporting that set up, I am looking for a new solution.  
> 
> There are several dither patterns to try. In my limited test, I have 
> not been very satisfied in the smoothness of tones. Since I am seeing 
> so many users claiming happy results, I thought that there may be 
> something that I am missing.
> 
> A quick search in list archive of Cone Inks and 7000 only came up with 
> one message. If you can point me to previous discusions that would be 
> great too.
> 
> Thanks
> Eric
>