Roy Harrington’s QuadTone RIP (QTR) software is a remarkable collection of tools that allows for some of the highest quality black and white output available on Epson inkjet printers. If you’ve only used the Epson ABW driver, you owe it to yourself to try QTR. QTR is capable of both very simple operation, for those [...]
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QuadTone RIP Workflow
July 21, 2009Printer Calibration and Profiling
April 10, 2009In the previous post of this instructional series we looked at calibrating and profiling the monitor for accurate display. Now it’s time to ensure consistent and predictable results from the printer. As with monitors, printers benefit from both calibration and profiling. The difference, however, is that unless you own a full-featured RIP, the calibration step, referred [...]
Epson 3800 grayscale ICC profiles
March 9, 2009My biggest beef (among many) with Epson’s Advanced BW driver (ABW) is that it is decidedly NOT part of a color-managed workflow, at least not out of the box. If you own a spectrophotometer like the popular i1, you can use Roy Harrington’s QuadTone RIP (QTR) to create your own profiles specifically for ABW output. [...]
Leopard, CS4 and printer profiling
February 20, 2009Update: I’ve added supplementary steps (1a and 2a) for those who need to print grayscale targets. With the introduction of Leopard (OS 10.5) in late 2007, Apple made significant “enhancements” to the printing pipeline that, to this day are still wreaking havoc on color managed workflows. One particular problem, and there are a few, involves [...]
ICP Course: Black and White with Your DSLR
February 4, 2009From Feb 14-15 I’m teaching a weekend workshop at ICP. Titled, Black and White With Your DSLR, this course lets you explore first-hand a b/w capture to print workflow using Adobe’s Lightroom 2. We start the day with an actual shooting assignment in midtown Manhattan. Back in the classroom we import, sort, edit, and finally [...]
ICP Course: Pixels to Paper
January 21, 2009Would you like to improve your image editing techniques and workflow? Is high quality inkjet printing still a mystery to you? My next class at ICP, Pixels to Paper: Inkjet Printing for Photographers starts next week on January 27. This hands-on 10 week course covers the fundamentals of intermediate to advanced image editing and printing. We focus [...]
ICP Workshop
January 18, 2009If you shoot a lot of black and white and wonder if you’re getting the most out of your images, you may be interested in a brand new class I’m teaching at ICP next month. This weekend workshop, Black and White With Your DSLR, lets you explore first-hand a b/w capture to print workflow using [...]
