QTR-Quadtone RIP

>
> Hello,
> I am new to this group and brand new to the Quadtone Rip.  I have been
> printing with the Epson 3800 for about 4 months using the AWB driver for
> B&W prints and using Eric Chan's profiles for Epson Exhibition Fiber
> paper primarily.  I really love this paper but it only comes in sheet
> and not roll.
> 
> Here is my problem (followed by my question below).  I am printing
> panoramic images form scanned NOBLEX 120 6x12 negatives.  I have been
> printing panoramics 16.5 x 39 inches on 2 sheets of 17x22 Epson paper
> and planning to join them together when mounting to board --- not easy
> to get a perfect join and have minimally visible seam.  My understanding
> of the Epson 3800 has been that I can only print a maximum length of 37
> inches without a RIP.  Regardless, since my largest sheet paper is 24x30
> ( I can cut to 17x30) I still need roll paper and will want to print
> images even longer than 39" on a single sheet in the future with
> digitally stitched panoramics.
> 
> Here are my questions:
> 1. Can anyone tell me the maximum length I can print using the Quadtone
> RIP? And if there is any special information I needed to know about
> using the software to use it effectively for print length beyond what is
> written on the PDF from the website?
> 
> 2. I am planning to use Museo Silver Rag for gloss surface and Canson
> Rives BFK for matte surface. (I also plan check out Harmon Gloss FB AI
> paper as well).  Is it best to use the paper profiles from manufacturer.
> Eric Chan's AWB profiles? or a Quadtone RIP profile included in software
> for B&W.  I do not intend to build my own paper profiles.
> I ask because surprisingly I found that when I used the Museo Silver Rag
> AWB profile by Eric Chan on the Museo Paper paper, my print came out too
> light and with different contrast compared to the perfect print from the
> Epson AWB profile for Epson paper. When I did another print on Museo
> Silver Rag with the Epson AWB profile it printed almost exactly as my
> Epson Paper/Epson profile print, except for the difference in paper base
> colors.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Bob Parker
>

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, RParker124 <rparker124@msn.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am new to this group and brand new to the Quadtone Rip.  I have been
> printing with the Epson 3800 for about 4 months using the AWB driver for
> B&W prints and using Eric Chan's profiles for Epson Exhibition Fiber
> paper primarily.  I really love this paper but it only comes in sheet
> and not roll.
>
> Here is my problem (followed by my question below).  I am printing
> panoramic images form scanned NOBLEX 120 6x12 negatives.  I have been
> printing panoramics 16.5 x 39 inches on 2 sheets of 17x22 Epson paper
> and planning to join them together when mounting to board --- not easy
> to get a perfect join and have minimally visible seam.  My understanding
> of the Epson 3800 has been that I can only print a maximum length of 37
> inches without a RIP.  Regardless, since my largest sheet paper is 24x30
> ( I can cut to 17x30) I still need roll paper and will want to print
> images even longer than 39" on a single sheet in the future with
> digitally stitched panoramics.
>
> Here are my questions:
> 1. Can anyone tell me the maximum length I can print using the Quadtone
> RIP? And if there is any special information I needed to know about
> using the software to use it effectively for print length beyond what is
> written on the PDF from the website?
>
> 2. I am planning to use Museo Silver Rag for gloss surface and Canson
> Rives BFK for matte surface. (I also plan check out Harmon Gloss FB AI
> paper as well).  Is it best to use the paper profiles from manufacturer.
> Eric Chan's AWB profiles? or a Quadtone RIP profile included in software
> for B&W.  I do not intend to build my own paper profiles.
> I ask because surprisingly I found that when I used the Museo Silver Rag
> AWB profile by Eric Chan on the Museo Paper paper, my print came out too
> light and with different contrast compared to the perfect print from the
> Epson AWB profile for Epson paper. When I did another print on Museo
> Silver Rag with the Epson AWB profile it printed almost exactly as my
> Epson Paper/Epson profile print, except for the difference in paper base
> colors.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Bob Parker
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Hi Bob,
> 
> On the 3800 (and 3880) printer the Epson driver has limited the maximum
> length of print to 37 inches -- mainly because it does not have any
> support for roll paper.   The guts of the printer however do not really
> restrict the length.
> 
> So for QTR I've allowed prints up to 128 inches.  I've personally do
> prints as long as about 72 inches but in principal there's no reason you
> couldn't do 128 inches.  The hassle is you need to carefully cut a
> sheet from a roll the exact length that you want.  The leading edge
> must have a nice square edge since the printer will be checking this.
> You need to feed the paper into the back slot and hand hold the rest as
> it prints.  It works fairly easily as long as you are careful.
> 
> --------------------
> 
> When using ICC profiles you must use them specifically with the
> driver and settings that they were made for.  So the ones you get from
> Epson are only for Epson driver color printing.   They do not provide
> any for ABW mode.  The ones from Eric Chan are only for ABW.
> And finally for QTR you can only use ones provided in QTR or
> ones created with QTR-Create-ICC and using the QTR driver.
> 
> Roy
> 
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, RParker124 <rparker124@...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am new to this group and brand new to the Quadtone Rip.  I have been
> > printing with the Epson 3800 for about 4 months using the AWB driver for
> > B&W prints and using Eric Chan's profiles for Epson Exhibition Fiber
> > paper primarily.  I really love this paper but it only comes in sheet
> > and not roll.
> >
> > Here is my problem (followed by my question below).  I am printing
> > panoramic images form scanned NOBLEX 120 6x12 negatives.  I have been
> > printing panoramics 16.5 x 39 inches on 2 sheets of 17x22 Epson paper
> > and planning to join them together when mounting to board --- not easy
> > to get a perfect join and have minimally visible seam.  My understanding
> > of the Epson 3800 has been that I can only print a maximum length of 37
> > inches without a RIP.  Regardless, since my largest sheet paper is 24x30
> > ( I can cut to 17x30) I still need roll paper and will want to print
> > images even longer than 39" on a single sheet in the future with
> > digitally stitched panoramics.
> >
> > Here are my questions:
> > 1. Can anyone tell me the maximum length I can print using the Quadtone
> > RIP? And if there is any special information I needed to know about
> > using the software to use it effectively for print length beyond what is
> > written on the PDF from the website?
> >
> > 2. I am planning to use Museo Silver Rag for gloss surface and Canson
> > Rives BFK for matte surface. (I also plan check out Harmon Gloss FB AI
> > paper as well).  Is it best to use the paper profiles from manufacturer.
> > Eric Chan's AWB profiles? or a Quadtone RIP profile included in software
> > for B&W.  I do not intend to build my own paper profiles.
> > I ask because surprisingly I found that when I used the Museo Silver Rag
> > AWB profile by Eric Chan on the Museo Paper paper, my print came out too
> > light and with different contrast compared to the perfect print from the
> > Epson AWB profile for Epson paper. When I did another print on Museo
> > Silver Rag with the Epson AWB profile it printed almost exactly as my
> > Epson Paper/Epson profile print, except for the difference in paper base
> > colors.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Bob Parker
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>