Hi everyone,
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New to the group, so I hate to start with a request rather than to offer help, but hopefully someone comes up with a problem I can help solve soon.
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I've been struggling to diagnose an issue with QTR. For the past few years I've been printing digital positives successfully from my 2020 MacMini (M1 chip, running Sonoma OS 14.6.1) to my Epson 1430 with a CISS system. A month ago (pre-Sonoma update when using Snow Leopard OS 10.6) my prints suddenly became very grainy. Nothing had changed about my materials or operating system at the time (epson may have updated the printer driver though). I use Pictorico OHP and grayscale dye-based inks. I reset my printing system, uninstalled and reinstalled QTR, updated my OS, fully flushed, cleaned, and updated the printer. My prints still came out grainy even when running calibration prints. While auditing my workflow, I noticed that "Printer Features (or Options on newer OSs)" and my ability to select a paper type had disappeared from the print dialogue box, both when printing through QTR on Photoshop and the Print Tool. However, those options still exist if I'm using Photoshop to print directly with my printer without using QTR. I know that you can choose paper type in the "Print Color Management" section of the Print Tool, but my process requires that there's no color management (smarter people than me working in Photogravure have determined this to be necessary).
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Has anyone had a similar issue? Should I somehow return to an older OS? Is the issue not a software one? Maybe there's a workaround?
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Thanks for your help in advance!
Nick
