QTR-Quadtone RIP

I've been printing with Moab Entrada Natural for years with QTR and have liked the results. I'm now trying to see if glossy paper is all it's cracked up to be, eg better tonal range and definitely better Dmax. With my Epson 3880 and Mac Pro the glossy papers that show up are not well identified. I have some Ilford Smooth Pearl, beloved by my favorite color printer, Charles Cramer, and some Canson Platine Silver Rag. I like the way they print in color but would like to use them with QTR as well.

What is "Ilford Smooth," is it smooth pearl, or smooth something else?

Of the listed papers, what is closest to the ones I've listed? I'm not quite prepared to make my own profiles, I do not have a spectrophotometer.

Thanks for any help.

Eric Brody

On 11/26/2013 06:41 PM, Eric Brody wrote:
> I've been printing with Moab Entrada Natural for years with QTR and have
> liked the results. I'm now trying to see if glossy paper is all it's
> cracked up to be, eg better tonal range and definitely better Dmax. With
> my Epson 3880 and Mac Pro the glossy papers that show up are not well
> identified. I have some Ilford Smooth Pearl, beloved by my favorite
> color printer, Charles Cramer, and some Canson Platine Silver Rag. I
> like the way they print in color but would like to use them with QTR as
> well.
>
> What is "Ilford Smooth," is it smooth pearl, or smooth something else?
>
> Of the listed papers, what is closest to the ones I've listed? I'm not
> quite prepared to make my own profiles, I do not have a spectrophotometer.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Eric Brody

There is not much difference between the three qualities of Ilford 
Smooth that would become visible when one profile is used. Even the 
older obsolete versions of the Ilford Smooth come close and I guess the 
QTR profiles were made for that range. The old and also obsolete Ilford 
Galerie Smooth Gloss 280 gsm differs more though.

Platine Silver Rag is quite unique.


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