New QTR User - Dedicated printer & soft proof question
2007-07-16 by jturner4210626
Hello. I have at home and Epson 1280 and the printer that replaced it an Epson 2200. I also own an Eye One Photo package and have been making profiles for printers for several years and get excellent screen to print match. I have mostly concentrated on color printing the past several years but with some of the new digital tools available am looking to venture into the world of B&W. I downloaded QTR the other day and played around with printing to my Epson 2200 and was somewhat pleased with the output although I realize I could probably do better. Several questions: 1) Will I get better results from a dedicated 1280 with third party inks for B&W or do I use the Epson 2200 w/ stock UC inks? 2) I believe that I have the workflow for soft proofing correct. If I use the soft proof in CS2 using the gray matte profile, this is a general representation of my image printing through QTR assuming a neutral print. I may also convert the image to the QTR Gray 2.2 workspace and work on it that way. 3) Is there a way to soft proof curve blends? Thanks in advance for your reply. --Joel Turner