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Re: Eboni Variable Tone updates
2016-03-11 by paulmwhiting@...
100 feet ahead I can deal with... most of the time here I feel yards, miles, behind!
Yes, I can open the .qidf file in Notepad quite easily. The # and PRINTER lines I understand.
Just wondering... what paper(s) do you use? Did you make the profile from scratch? And what's a 5-ink profile? Did you leave one cartridge unused in the setup? Are you using Paul's Variable Toner profile?
Questions, questions, but they will help me understand all this better!
I don't use Premier Art 325, I use their lighter paper, 205. There is no .qidf file for it, but couldn't I create one using Paul's 325 .qidf as a model? Shouldn't be too hard. I'd probably have to re-do the black ink limit and relinearize. As a learning exercise, I moved the 325 profile over to my current Profiles folder (QTR wouldn't recognize my Profiles_New folder) and tried creating a .quad file using the Curve Creator. But I kept getting a small circle going round and round and finally exited with no .quad file created. All I got was a message saying something like "Error = I/O 32". What's going on here?!
Finally, the numbers of the various positions in the profile don't correspond to the physical positions of the cartridges, do they... these are merely for identification purposes.
I was beginning to think I don't belong here! So I went over to the Digital Darkroom folder in photo.net, but most of the discussion about QTR was in 2004-2005. Many posts referred back to this very Yahoo group right here. I get a bit discouraged at times but I'll stick it out. Paul says it's all part of the learning process - he's right - and I do want to learn more about QTR
My goal:
Earlier I was using an Epson R1800 printer with Paul's 3MK setup. I look at those prints now and the blacks seem richer than my prints from my current printer, a 1400, and the Eb6 inkset. I figure if I can learn QTR I can tweak and improve my curve file to get that R1800 "look" back.
Thanks again,
Paul W.