Quadtone RIP

[Marquinius]

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I bought the Quadtone RIP about a year ago and am very happy with the resulting prints. That said, I'm still tweaking and twisting to see what the possibilities are and how to get the best prints.

 

For good prints I use Harman Inkjet Gloss FB AI and for regular use I mostly use Epson semi gloss papers.

 

I'm sure more people use Quadtone RIP, so here's my question: what settings are your favorites to achieve a warm print, a neutral print or a cold print. And how do you handle paper quality? Do you use a specific pre setting from Quadtone (i.e. "rag"or some such)?

 

Any thoughts on how to put the levels? Or better: how to enhance using this fine tool?

 

Marco

[Photoskeptic]

Marco, it might be helpful to know what printer you are using. I used QuadtoneRIP on my Epson 2200 and the combination was almost unbeatable.But when I upgraded to the 3800, Quadtone did not have their version ready (for the 3800) yet, but I found I no longer needed it as Epson has come a long way with their bw software.

[Marquinius]

John,

 

Sorry, logical question: I use an Epson R2400 and that one is covered A-Okay.

 

Marco

[Photoskeptic]

It's been awhile, but when I used Quadtone, I used 85% of the tone I wanted and 15% of the other. I think they changed all this on their software with an upgrade later to some kind of slider system and had four adjustments instead of two. If what I did makes any sense, the reason I went to 85% was that 75% seemed too conservative and I began to get the prints I was after when I increased the principal tone. I mostly did "sepia" and "very cool" prints. But tastes change and most of my stuff today is neutral.

[thompsonkirk]

The 'right' QTR percentages are pretty subjective. They vary for different papers & depend heavily on your personal taste for warmer/cooler prints.

 

Harman FBAI is a fairly new paper, & as photoskeptic mentioned, many BW folks have switched to using the Epson ABW or Canon Monochrome drivers, which are much improved. My guess is that not many folks on this forum are using that combination, & you'd do better to correspond with other BW printers on the Yahoo group digitalblackandwhitetheprint. (Also there used to be a specific Yahoo group about QTR, but I don't know if it's still as active ad the group I mentioned.)

 

Kirk

 

PS, my first experiment would be to see if QTR actually gives you richer print quality than the current Epson advanced BW driver.

[ns_ng]

Hi,

 

I used both QTR and the ABW with my Epson 3850. However, I could not see any advantage in using QTR. I have been very pleased using ABW for my b&w printing.

 

N.S. Ng

 

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