QTR-Quadtone RIP

The issue with this is that my printer cannot be dedicated to B&W, so
I have to do the best I can within a color/B&W setup but frankly, I
haven't seen a B&W print yet (including QTR prints) from my 2200 on
semi-gloss paper that I would be comfortable selling. The metamerism
issue was terrible and QTR fixed that, but the bronzing is something
imho that any discerning client would (or should) object to. Any
slight angle of view and it screams at you. Wish I could afford one of
those 4800 and see if it does any better, but I'm afraid I'll have to
externalise if I want to sell some decent B&W. Too bad I know nothing
about film and wet darkrooms...


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Staver" <daniel@p...> wrote:
> I usually hestitate to say something is impossible, but I've seen a fair
> amount of combinations of UC inks on Ilford Smooth Pearl and Premium
Glossy.
> Everything from two blacks with toners, one black, only gray, black
and gray
> with no toners and various combinations of matte black and photo
black. I've
> never seen a result that to me was even remotely acceptable. If
there exists
> a way to combine UC inks in a grayscale curve to remove bronzing on
these
> papers I don't know what it would be.
> 
> What definitely works is PKN with Gloss Optimizer. That effectively
removes
> all bronzing, and looks particularly good on Ilford Smooth Pearl,
with Epson
> Premium Semigloss coming a close second. As an added bonus you get
> incredible dmax.
> 
> Now MIS has inks with a new base that's supposed to eliminate the
bronzing
> without the need for GLOP. I'm waiting for my MIS PRO inkset now and
will
> probably post curves in the coming week.
> 
> --
> Daniel Staver
> http://daniel.staver.no