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Re: Initial QTR results very poor-help needed...

2006-08-30 by jerkankarlsson

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Robbins"
<bruce.robbins@...> wrote:
>
> I'm using QTR on a PC running XP. Files saved as greyscale tiffs as 
> instructed and dragged to the print window. The results are
terrible. Black 
> and white photographs are printing very, very dark-wasting lots of ink 
> (Eboni matt black and UT colour cartridges) in the process. I'm
printing on 
> Permajet Museum Classic for which there doesn't appear to be a
profile so 
> I've used the EEM profile (and tried one or two others as well with the 
> same results).
> 
> Can anyone say what might be going wrong here? Using the limit and 
> gamma adjustment tools help a little but prints are still far too
dark. Other 
> than sending a very light file to QTR, is there a solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>


Hi, 
the same thing happened to me! I changed from printing with 2880dpi to
1440dpi and it solved the problem for me. 
Have only tried it with epson mattepaper, i´ll try it with glossy as
well when i get more ink.

/Jari

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