QTR-Quadtone RIP

I am brand new to black and white printing, as well as new to the 
Quadtone RIP software.  

I am not yet sophistacated enough to develope my own curves but did 
come upon the following:

Using Matt Chapin's curves for the Hahnemuhle Pearl paper, I was able 
to produce a very satisfying print using both of his curves in 
splittone mode and with the gloss optimizer using the OEM inkset.

For the highlights and midtones I used an 85% cool and a 15% warm tone 
and for the shadows 100% cool.  

I also reduced the gamma to -10, but that had more to do with my 
particular print and not the curves themselves.

I ran Matt's profile with Ilford's Smooth Pearl and it came out pretty damn good, not 
perfect but nice. I ran it with 90% warm and 10% cool and the rest left as he outlined it for 
the Hann.

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Tochterman" <alantochterman@...> wrote:

>
> I am brand new to black and white printing, as well as new to the 
> Quadtone RIP software.  
> 
> I am not yet sophistacated enough to develope my own curves but did 
> come upon the following:
> 
> Using Matt Chapin's curves for the Hahnemuhle Pearl paper, I was able 
> to produce a very satisfying print using both of his curves in 
> splittone mode and with the gloss optimizer using the OEM inkset.
> 
> For the highlights and midtones I used an 85% cool and a 15% warm tone 
> and for the shadows 100% cool.  
> 
> I also reduced the gamma to -10, but that had more to do with my 
> particular print and not the curves themselves.
>