Digital BW, The Print

I am hoping someone has this same combination and can move me along.

I can now print a step tablet test page out of Photoshop CS5 but when I try
to use the QTR supplied generic profile for the OVI hextone inks I get all
grays, no browns. I also don't get at all, why if the profile is already in
a folder in Library-Printers-QTR, etc., it needs an installer script to be
run from within that same folder? Where is it getting installed if not to
where it already is??

I have tried altering the color space of the file in Photoshop. I have tried
flattening the file. I have tried printing a flattened .tif file from
Preview instead of Photoshop. I have tried printing as 8 bit instead of 16
bit. I cannot get any brown tones to print. (Nozzle checks are perfect.) I
have even tried altering the .qdif file in Library-Printers-QTRŠ To get some
sort of change, nothing. (Since it apparently needs to be 'installed' from
there to some other mystery location, I understand why this last might not
have worked.)

All I want to do is open an image in Photoshop and get a QTR print from one
of my images that shows me a rough approximation of the brown tones
available from this ink set before I dig further into the Machiavellian
calibration process that the QTR manual sets forth in its very strange
language.

David Kachel

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