QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Group,

Well, after years of Epsons, I had my third 4000 bite the dust with a
bad printhead in the middle of printing a show and was not happy. 
Rather than mess with another one, during a moment of anger and
frustration, I managed to haul into my studio the new Canon IPF5000
17" pigment printer (I think it is the only one in New Mexico at the
moment).  Boy, little did I know what I was biting off.. very
different user interface and much work needed by Canon to streamline
and document the driver/software/16 bit plugin.  HOWEVER, once I got
into it, I'm finding that this printer may be a real keeper.  

The 16-bit Photoshop plug-in (which is all but undocumented by
Canon) turns out to have real power for B&W.  The dot size of the
Canon print head is visibly larger than the Epsons' under
magnification, but not visible in real world terms.  I'm getting some
very neutral and nice B&W output, comparable to what is coming off the
R2400 K3 inkset.  The DMAX and black are looking good.  I think there
are four different "blacks/greys" on board and no need to switch any
inks between matte and photo papers.

I suddenly realized this afternoon that I have no way of using
QTR with this machine... right ?  I'm thinking that with a RIP like
QTR, this machine will sing.

Whoa, I miss QTR.  Hopefully enough folks will get on this machine for
Roy to justify writing the code or whatever..

Cheers,

Tony Bonanno
Santa Fe