QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Bob

I print on matt papers such as Hahnemuhle Photo Rag rather than the 
newer baryta papers but in my 7600 I have the following MIS inks:

Eboni Black
UT7-C - dark carbon
UT7-LC - mid carbon
UT-FS-Y - light carbon
R2NTL-C - dark "neutral"
R2NTL-Y - mid "neutral"
UT7-Y - Sepia toner

When controlled by QTR this gives me the choice of two quadtone sets a 
warm and a neutral (sharing the light UTFS-Y ink). The last position is 
a sepia ink for toning if I want that. If you prefer selenium you could 
try MIS's Selenium toner ink from their UT3D set. If you like both 
toners you could drop the light carbon ink UT-FS-Y and have both toners 
in there at the loss of a little smoothness in the light tones.

This set up gives me very smooth prints in a variety of tones from cool 
neutral to warm (and any mix between the two including split toned).with 
the option of sepia toning. If you like a very blue cool you could go 
for MIS's complete UT7 set (but replace the UT7-LK ink with another of 
your choice).

Alternatively you could try one of the Cone K7 sets - you won't get a 
choice of tones (other than by changing papers) but they should be very 
smooth (in theory at least, I haven't tried them).

I would recommend considering matt papers as the 7600 is slightly older 
technology and is perhaps not optimised for the newer style glossy & 
baryta papers although these inks should print fine on the matt baryta 
papers at least. I've also printed on Silver Rag with these inks but 
using a different 'photo' black (R2PKN-PK) and that also worked well.

best of luck
Howard


Howard Shaw
glassman@...
www.howardshaw.org



Bob McCarthy wrote:
> I just acquired an Epson 7600 that i'm going to dedicate to B&W. I've have many, many question that I'm hoping the group can point me towards answers
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> I'm shooting large format, typically 4x5 and 8x10 and have been scanning with a Cezanne. The files are beautifully toned and sharp as only large format can be. To get out of the darkroom, I bought a HP9180 thinking it was a training step to the Z3100. 
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> I'm on a Mac desktop with the latest OS and use CS3 at the moment. I can create very nice prints with the current setup, but they are not quite to the level of what I used to produce in a darkroom. I elected to close down wet printing and sold off (actually gave away) my darkroom equipment.
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> I'm printing on the Baryta papers at the moment, enjoying the slight warmth of Galleria Silk.
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> A friend called me yesterday and offered my, for a song, their Epson 7600, which they used very sparingly and I brought it home last night. Head cleaning devoured most of last evening, but otherwise the machine looks virtually new.
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> I downloaded QTR to look at it, but without inks all I could do it look.
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> So where do I start, what inks to buy, the Cone setup or are there others. papers, profiles are all questions that come to mind.
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> I would appreciate and help or suggestion as how to come up to speed quickly.
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> bob mccarthy
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