QTR-Quadtone RIP

I recently downloaded QTR and am using the curves for Matte and Ilford paper and trying to find out how to get True B&W prints without any tones. Can someone help with the right mix of curves to do this?

Thanks.

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "mmcouvie" <mmcouvie@...> wrote:
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> I recently downloaded QTR and am using the curves for Matte and Ilford paper and trying to find out how to get True B&W prints without any tones. Can someone help with the right mix of curves to do this?
> 
> Thanks.
>

What printer and inkset are you using?  What specific QTR curves are you using?

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Randall" <jrandall@...> wrote:
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> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "mmcouvie" <mmcouvie@> wrote:
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> > I recently downloaded QTR and am using the curves for Matte and Ilford paper and trying to find out how to get True B&W prints without any tones. Can someone help with the right mix of curves to do this?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> >
> 
> What printer and inkset are you using?  What specific QTR curves are you using?
>
I am using an Epson 4000 with Ultra Chrome ink.  
For Ilford I have tried the curves:

UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Carbon
UC-IsSmooth Pearl -Neutral 
UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Sepia

UC-EEnMatte -Cool
UC-EEnMatte - CoolSe
UC-EEnMatte - Sepia
UC-EEnMatte - warm

Thanks

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "mmcouvie" <mmcouvie@...> wrote:
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> I am using an Epson 4000 with Ultra Chrome ink.  
> For Ilford I have tried the curves:
> 
> UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Carbon
> UC-IsSmooth Pearl -Neutral 
> UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Sepia
> 
> UC-EEnMatte -Cool
> UC-EEnMatte - CoolSe
> UC-EEnMatte - Sepia
> UC-EEnMatte - warm

The factory black/gray inks in the 4000 are not neutral but are a pukey green/yellow tone. So you gotta add color inks to the mix.

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "John Vitollo" <jvlist@...> wrote:
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> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "mmcouvie" <mmcouvie@> wrote:
> >
> > I am using an Epson 4000 with Ultra Chrome ink.  
> > For Ilford I have tried the curves:
> > 
> > UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Carbon
> > UC-IsSmooth Pearl -Neutral 
> > UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Sepia
> > 
> > UC-EEnMatte -Cool
> > UC-EEnMatte - CoolSe
> > UC-EEnMatte - Sepia
> > UC-EEnMatte - warm
> 
> The factory black/gray inks in the 4000 are not neutral but are a pukey green/yellow tone. So you gotta add color inks to the mix.
>
How do I add color inks to the mix?

> > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "mmcouvie" <mmcouvie@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using an Epson 4000 with Ultra Chrome ink.  
> > > For Ilford I have tried the curves:
> > > 
> > > UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Carbon
> > > UC-IsSmooth Pearl -Neutral 
> > > UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Sepia
> > > 
> > > UC-EEnMatte -Cool
> > > UC-EEnMatte - CoolSe
> > > UC-EEnMatte - Sepia
> > > UC-EEnMatte - warm
> > 
> > The factory black/gray inks in the 4000 are not neutral but are a pukey green/yellow tone. So you gotta add color inks to the mix.
> >
> How do I add color inks to the mix?
>

I'm finding this a bit confusing. If you are using the curves, then the colours are already being added - that's what the curves do.

What you haven't said is what results you are getting. What is actually wrong with the prints you are producing using these curves?

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "mmcouvie" <mmcouvie@...> wrote:
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> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "John Vitollo" <jvlist@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "mmcouvie" <mmcouvie@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using an Epson 4000 with Ultra Chrome ink.  
> > > For Ilford I have tried the curves:
> > > 
> > > UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Carbon
> > > UC-IsSmooth Pearl -Neutral 
> > > UC-IsSmooth Pearl - Sepia
> > > 
> > > UC-EEnMatte -Cool
> > > UC-EEnMatte - CoolSe
> > > UC-EEnMatte - Sepia
> > > UC-EEnMatte - warm
> > 
> > The factory black/gray inks in the 4000 are not neutral but are a pukey green/yellow tone. So you gotta add color inks to the mix.
> >
> How do I add color inks to the mix?

Sorry for my colloquialism.

Adding 'color inks to the mix' means using QTR and it's curves.