QTR-Quadtone RIP

Mark Savoia wrote:
> I started to play with doing it in Studio Print but was not getting  
> gray tones, there was always a color cast. I think the whole  
> procedure for making the profile is too heady. I have much else to do  
> in a day, like print, then spend hours getting it to work. This is  
> why I thought QTR would have all the work done. You asked, "also what  
> is the score with Bauhaus", what's that?
> Mark

Bowhaus, the American B&W RIP and ink house, not the one in 
Dessau.

http://www.bowhaus.com/services/IJCOPMmain.php4

I do not think you will get better B&W from a 10XXX/X with 
CcMmYK than the 8 pass black only gives you with the normal 
driver. With any RIP.

David Tobie wrote the following in 2003, mainly in relation to 
metamerism:

 >The 9500, 7500, 2000p, and 10000 pigment printers were not, 
from their
release, ever recommended for black and white printing, 
including such tinted black
and whites as sepia-tones, for this very reason. I seem to 
recall it stating
"not for black and white printing" right on the 2000p's box; 
which is an
unusually pubilc place for limitation notices. Notices on the 
10000 box would be
less useful, since it is not display floor packaging <

Still true in my opinion, even with UC inks. I was already a 
bit confused what you actually wanted to do with QTR and a 
CcMmYK printer. I have had all kinds of plans with the 10000 
and QTR, from 6 NK to CMYKkk but in all there were at least 
some grey inks replacing hues. Now I think that a Z3100 does 
all that easier and the 10000 might become a fast dye printer 
for posters that shouldn't last longer than a month indoors, 
both ends of the spectrum in fade resistance and price per 
square meter. They shouldn't bite one another in the market.

Met vriendelijke groeten,Ernst


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