QTR-Quadtone RIP

I finally figured out how to get it to work...especially with your
help Diane...but my prints are still too warm  pc epson 2200 epson
inks epson luster paper. No I haven't printed wedges, as you did..but
I am looking for a cool/neutral black not warm tone (read brown)
prints. Suggestions? Combinations?

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "montauklady" <gpfly205ss@e...>
wrote:
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> I finally figured out how to get it to work...especially with your
> help Diane...but my prints are still too warm  pc epson 2200 epson
> inks epson luster paper. No I haven't printed wedges, as you
did..but
> I am looking for a cool/neutral black not warm tone (read brown)
> prints. Suggestions? Combinations?

Try the "NoK" profile with luster paper.  It doesn't use any black
ink, but it does produce a 
neutral/cool print using only the neutralized (with light cyan and
light magenta inks) light 
black ink.  If you need really deep blacks then a neutral profile
that uses either neutralized 
Photo Black (with full strength cyan and magenta) or even better the
MIS PKN (cool neutral 
version of the Photo black ink) should be used.  The Epson Photo
Black ink that is used 
with RC papers is extremely warm.  I don't think that any of the
older profiles for RC 
papers that have been distributed use a neutralized Photo Black ink
and that may be the 
source of the warm tones you are getting.

Epson's photo black is a very warm almost brown black and used with QTR 
will print exactly that way. The photo black (pk) curves supplied with 
QTR don't use toner inks to compensate for the pk only the light black 
(right click on the curve in the QTRgui and it will show a graph of the 
curve). Instead, try using the UC-NoBlack-Neutral curve. This might seem 
counterintuitive but since it doesn't use pk it won't print brown and 
has the benefit of allowing the use of any paper without having to 
switch black inks - just leave mat black installed.

Will

montauklady wrote:

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> I finally figured out how to get it to work...especially with your
> help Diane...but my prints are still too warm  pc epson 2200 epson
> inks epson luster paper. No I haven't printed wedges, as you did..but
> I am looking for a cool/neutral black not warm tone (read brown)
> prints. Suggestions? Combinations?
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