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Re: [Digital BW] Re: QuadToneRIP new features

2003-08-02 by Carl Schofield

Steve,

I haven't used this paper, but if the dmax is relatively low try the  
the BES profiles.  The approximate relative dmax order for the three  
paper profiles I made are EEM 1.70, HPR 1.64, BES 1.56.

Carl
On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 04:19  PM, kiwikale wrote:

> Many thanks to Roy for making all this hard work available and to Carl  
> also for doing
> the 2200 profiles.  I have just one question for Carl.  Which of the  
> three sets of paper
> profiles would you recommend for use with Somerset Enhanced Velvet  
> from St
> Cuthberts Mill?
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington"  
> <roy@h...>
> wrote:
>>
>> There's a new version now available.  Both the Mac OS X version and  
>> the
>> Linux source code are included.
>>
>> See:  http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html
>>
>> The lastest download has a few enhancements.
>>
>> 1) The major addition is an automated Linearization capability.  This  
>> requires a
>> densitometer or the Eye-One spectro-photometer. With this feature once
> partitioning
>> of gray inks is done, by simply measuring densities and entering them  
>> into the
>> descriptor file a correction curve is generated to achieve the  
>> ideally spaced
> stepwedge
>> i.e. one that is optimized for equal visual separation throught the  
>> range.
>>
>> 2) The ink droplet size for 4 picoliter printers using 1440x720  
>> resolution has been
>> increased.  Several of the most popular printers fall into this  
>> category --  the 1160,
>> the 1270, and the 1280.  This means that the potential dMax for these  
>> printers is
> has
>> been increased when printing at 1440x720.
>>
>> 3) Quite a bit of tuning has been done for the 2200 printer. Both the  
>> internals have
>> been tweaked for greater smoothness and Carl has created all new  
>> curves for
> several
>> papers.
>>
>>  4) The Run-Install-Curves script is now automatically run whenever  
>> you create a
>> curve using Run-Quad-Profile.  Also a password is no longer needed  
>> for this.
>>
>> -------
>>
>> Just in case there is a flurry of questions, unfortunately I will be  
>> away
>> for much of August, so I won't be able to answer emails for a while.
>>
>> Roy Harrington
>> www.harrington.com
>
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