[Leica] Really. The BEST B&W output I have ever made...

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Now you have piqued my interests. I will try the Roark's curves and get 
back to you...

At 02:34 PM 6/7/2006, Klein, Peter A wrote:

>Richard:  Are you saying the Quadtone RIP is better than Paul Roark's
>curves? I've been very happy with Paul's curves. I also use a 1280 and
>UT2 inks, and have also calibrated my monitor.  I haven't gone to any
>fancy paper, just Epson Matte Heavyweight or Epson Enhanced Matte, which
>Paul told me were pretty much interchangeable.
>
>Paul has curves for Hann. Photo Rag and a couple of other of the fancy
>papers, as well as Epson Enhanced Matte and even a couple of
>luster/glossy papers.
>
>How is Quadtone RIP output better?  Have you used the Roark curves or
>just the "easy way" slider method?
>
>. . . For those who are unfamiliar, MIS quadtone and hextone inks can be
>used with Photoshop, PS Elements and Picture Window Pro by a fairly
>simple procedure.  You convert your final grayscale photo to a temporary
>RGB color image, then apply a curve which generates a false color image.
>Then print the false color image.  The false colors are actually the
>amount of each shade of gray ink put down on paper.  Works great.
>
>--Peter
>
>Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:
> > UT2 is one of the more popular B&W inkset, try www.inkjetsupply.com
>You can
> > use it without QuadtoneRIP but from my testing, it's much better with
>it.
> > You need to calibrate your monitor (which I have been doing for a
>number of
> > years now) and you need to have a profile for the type of paper you
>are
> > using, but the effort seems to worth it..
>

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