QTR-Quadtone RIP

Roy,
Thank you for this your helpful response.  I appreciate the explanation of why Epson limited the maximum length of paper and that the engine is capable of more.  

Thanks for the info about the ICC profiles too.  It confirmed what I had experimented with yesterday.  I ran some 8.5x11 experiments yesterday with the QTR_Gray_Photo_Paper profile for Hanehmule Fine Art Baryta using the PR Baryta profile and Museo Silver Rag with the Museo Silver Rag profiles for neutral, cool, and warm tones, and came out with some beautiful prints.  Now I can settle on Museo Siver Rag for my panoramics and play with curves for print appearance, and paper lengths for proper print dimensions.  I plan to cut carefully and squarely

I am not technically oriented, so are there any plans out there to create profiles or curves for Epson Exhibition Fiber paper for QTR?

I'm excited about being able to make the QTR work for my long prints!

Thanks again,

Bob


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Roy Harrington <roy@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
> 
> On the 3800 (and 3880) printer the Epson driver has limited the maximum
> length of print to 37 inches -- mainly because it does not have any
> support for roll paper.   The guts of the printer however do not really
> restrict the length.
> 
> So for QTR I've allowed prints up to 128 inches.  I've personally do
> prints as long as about 72 inches but in principal there's no reason you
> couldn't do 128 inches.  The hassle is you need to carefully cut a
> sheet from a roll the exact length that you want.  The leading edge
> must have a nice square edge since the printer will be checking this.
> You need to feed the paper into the back slot and hand hold the rest as
> it prints.  It works fairly easily as long as you are careful.
> 
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> 
> When using ICC profiles you must use them specifically with the
> driver and settings that they were made for.  So the ones you get from
> Epson are only for Epson driver color printing.   They do not provide
> any for ABW mode.  The ones from Eric Chan are only for ABW.
> And finally for QTR you can only use ones provided in QTR or
> ones created with QTR-Create-ICC and using the QTR driver.
> 
> Roy
> 
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, RParker124 <rparker124@...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am new to this group and brand new to the Quadtone Rip.  I have been
> > printing with the Epson 3800 for about 4 months using the AWB driver for
> > B&W prints and using Eric Chan's profiles for Epson Exhibition Fiber
> > paper primarily.  I really love this paper but it only comes in sheet
> > and not roll.
> >
> > Here is my problem (followed by my question below).  I am printing
> > panoramic images form scanned NOBLEX 120 6x12 negatives.  I have been
> > printing panoramics 16.5 x 39 inches on 2 sheets of 17x22 Epson paper
> > and planning to join them together when mounting to board --- not easy
> > to get a perfect join and have minimally visible seam.  My understanding
> > of the Epson 3800 has been that I can only print a maximum length of 37
> > inches without a RIP.  Regardless, since my largest sheet paper is 24x30
> > ( I can cut to 17x30) I still need roll paper and will want to print
> > images even longer than 39" on a single sheet in the future with
> > digitally stitched panoramics.
> >
> > Here are my questions:
> > 1. Can anyone tell me the maximum length I can print using the Quadtone
> > RIP? And if there is any special information I needed to know about
> > using the software to use it effectively for print length beyond what is
> > written on the PDF from the website?
> >
> > 2. I am planning to use Museo Silver Rag for gloss surface and Canson
> > Rives BFK for matte surface. (I also plan check out Harmon Gloss FB AI
> > paper as well).  Is it best to use the paper profiles from manufacturer.
> > Eric Chan's AWB profiles? or a Quadtone RIP profile included in software
> > for B&W.  I do not intend to build my own paper profiles.
> > I ask because surprisingly I found that when I used the Museo Silver Rag
> > AWB profile by Eric Chan on the Museo Paper paper, my print came out too
> > light and with different contrast compared to the perfect print from the
> > Epson AWB profile for Epson paper. When I did another print on Museo
> > Silver Rag with the Epson AWB profile it printed almost exactly as my
> > Epson Paper/Epson profile print, except for the difference in paper base
> > colors.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Bob Parker
> >
> >
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