QTR-Quadtone RIP

Dan

No I didn't see your reply but thanks for it.  I did
the QTR thing last night.  
I got home from meeting up with a photographer friend
at 4:10, had to be 15 miles away for dinner at 6:00. I
figured well I may as well at last get QTR in the
computer so I downloaded it. Took 20 secs?  I
installed it. 2 minutes? I read the PDF instructions. 
I made 5 5x7 test prints, warm, cool, 50/50, 20/80 amd
80/20.  I still had time to shower shave and wait for
my wife. We were early for dinner.

How much better does that get?  OE (yes original
equipment) is a term from the auto industry.  The OE
inks I installed were all opened, half used, a month
old and gave me a perfect nozzle check w/o even a
cleaning cycle.

So today I will try the Epson Semi gloss or luster
which ever it is with the Crane Silver Rag, the Hana'
Fine Art Pearl and the Innova F Gloss.  I bet they
will work fine with the Epson profile.  Maybe a few
tweeks.

I'm sure that other Matt papers will be fine with the
EEM profile.  Many of the papers on the list of
profiles I haven't used.

So are you saying that the UT7 EZ is better for you
than the QTR OE system?  And where did the Cone system
fit into that.  Top middle or bottom.

I liked the UT7s, liked the tones, liked the Carbon
prints but the reliability has gotten really bad. In
the last order from MIS I had 2 Ebony carts that
insisted they were PK ink.  They were either PK carts
labled Ebony or Ebony carts with PK chips.  I'm
waiting for those to be replaced.

As for the Cone 6/7 ink set, how often is it
unreliable.  How often do you have to do surgery on
the cart?  Do the carts just stop working in the
middle of a printing session?  

Now that I have QTR I could just get a set and try
them for my Matt paper work.  

Neil