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Keith, thanks for the added info.  Sounds like I was trying to make things more difficult 
than was needed.  My main reason for all this started when, after I calibrated my monitor 
with Sypder2, my qtr prints still didn't match what I was seeing on the 'screen'.  The prints 
always have a lot more shadow detail.  Hopefully softproofing with PFP will solve me 
problem?  Otherwise I'm quite happy with the 2200/QTR combination.

Cheers,
Roger...

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "Keith Cooper" <yahoogroups@...> wrote:
>
> > Ok, a 'dumb' question - for the intial 21-step gray scale printout what 'settings' 
should be 
> > used in PS and the print driver.  I assume set PS to Gray 2.2 and No Color Correction.  
My 
> > confusion is what to use for the printer settings.  Should then be set to use the 
'default' 
> > settings for the paper in use (ie. on the 2200 EEM paper, auto colour, etc) or?
> 
> Hi
> 
> When I did the test prints for the article, I opened the supplied tiff as is (ie not colour 
> managed in any way and no profiles assumed or assigned),  and printed it with whatever 
> settings I was using in the driver.  For the K80 it was 'normal greyscale' and the 1290 it 
was 
> 'black only' 1440. The whole point is that the driver settings you use for actual printing 
(with 
> the new profile) are the same that you used to create it.
> 
> However... If you are using a 2200 with EEM, then why are you not printing via QTR 
itself? - 
> there are curves available for just this combination, and it's a perfect use for QTR. 
Printing via 
> the Epson driver and a luminance icc profile is probably not likely to give as good B/W 
as QTR
> 
> bye for now
> Keith Cooper
>