Don,
I forgot to ask if you have made any curves? If so how tricky is it and is it worth the effort?


Cheers,
Bill
Bill,

I attempted to make my own curve a good while back but my results were quite lacking. I followed the user guide to the letter (at least as far as I know). I was testing on Red River Polar matt so I could print some long panos. In the end I used an existing progile and tweaked it through QTRgui and finally got nice results by trial and error.

I'll also interested in building toner curves to create some split toned curves. Similar to what Linda Butler's work looks like in her book on Italy, if you are familiar with that.

Best regards,

Don Bryant

Bill,

I attempted to make my own curve a good while back but my results were quite lacking. I followed the user guide to the letter (at least as far as I know). I was testing on Red River Polar matt so I could print some long panos. In the end I used an existing progile and tweaked it through QTRgui and finally got nice results by trial and error.

I'll also interested in building toner curves to create some split toned curves. Similar to what Linda Butler's work looks like in her book on Italy, if you are familiar with that.

Best regards,

Don Bryant

Don,
Linda has some wonderful work. I would probably have a go at doing something like that in Photoshop as opposed to curves in the printing process. I recently digitally reproduced a lith print that was originally made in the darkroom strictly in Photoshop from a scanned negative. It is amazingly close to the original print. If I can remmber I'll post it here as it is a Hybrid.

Cheers,
Bill

Just curious to hear from those of you that are using Quad Tone RIP to make monochrome inkjet prints.

Thanks,

Don Bryant

For about the past five or six months I've been using QTR along with Cone's K7 split-tone inkset to print on HPR, and the prints have been gorgeous, with long, clear tonality. However, unless I apply a lightening curve in PS, the prints come out just a little darker than I intend. I assume that's because the Hahnemuhle profile included with QTR is not quite spot on. At this point I don't have the wherewithal to make my own profiles, so for now I have to use that workaround.

Now lately I've tried printing a series of images using QTR with the K7 sepia inkset, and the prints look bad, with the higher midtones crapping out where they grade into the highlights, posterized and grainy, just crappy. I've gone through a good bit of expensive ink and 308 gram HPR, and tried my workaround to no avail. So for now I've forsaken using that combination of ink and paper, and gone back to the split tone inkset.

cheers,
Ken