QTR-Quadtone RIP

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "emulsion4ever" <emulsion4ever@...> wrote:

> Thanks for the tip. Inkjet prints really aren't my thing. I can't
> imagine it to be that difficult to create a custom profile. My
> impression so far is just, well.. as you said, the documentation is
> very obscure. 

QTR was written specifically for good b&w from Epson inkjets and over-the-counter inksets.  The documentation that is out there has evolved 
primarily toward that end.  As A RIP QTR is capable of much, much  more and at the price is pretty incredible, so, many others have adapted 
its advanced capabilities to their own workflows.  My own experience with custom profiles is that you could easily work up a semester long 
course on any one of a half a dozen areas of interest with QTRs capabilities.  That capability plus its low price is why you find mention of it all 
over the web.
 
> When you see what you can do with digital negatives (and I'm not
> talking just Pt/Pd or SG prints) you'll probably forget all about the
> inkjet - Of course, this is very subjective.

Doing 8x10 silver contacts with digitally processed negs has been on my list of things to do for a couple of years now.  Finding the time to do 
it is just as illusive now as it was two years ago.  I had set aside two months this winter for that exploration and just yesterday gave it up when 
an old friend asked me to help them out by working that two months on a problem project of theirs, but that is my particular problem;)

> For the time being I'm gonna be looking for some resources. A steer in
> the right direction would be helpful. What did you mean by "finding a
> pro"?

From your first post you've probably found all the web based resources out there.  There are a number of professional printers that contribute 
to this forum that run printshops, hold workshops,  etc.  Read some back posts here and in DigitalBlack&WhitethePrint, (QTR got its start there 
about six or seven years ago) and you'll find a number of them.  (Adding a signature with your website/professional contact info is perfectly 
acceptable here, so there are lots of websites you can visit)  You can probably find someone in your area offering workshops in Digital Negs.  I 
personally am of a bent where finding the solution is just as much fun as the solution so I don't tend toward workshops but I understand 
people who do invest a lot of their time into creating a workflow and then are willing to share that in workshops.   You mentioned the Hybrid 
forum in your first post.  You may find someone there doing workshops but when I visited there it looked to be mostly working artists.   

As for a cookbook approach outside of workshops to making digital negs with QTR or any of the other advanced capabilities of QTR you've got 
to rely mostly on tutorials presented by others that were probably written as self organizing guides written when those people were 
discovering their own workflows.

This probably isn't what you're looking for but it's what I found when doing my own search. 

Again, Good luck!