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RE: [Digital BW] QTR2 Ink Calibration process

2003-08-19 by Daniel Staver

If you're getting a background color something's wrong. The cyan should
be printed as paper white if it's done correctly.

With my setup I have to select Quadtone Calibration in the print
settings both in windows and with lpoptions.

When I load the file in Photoshop i select 'Don't color manage this
document' and in the Photoshop print dialog I use 'Same as source' as
the color space.

You also have to enable calibration the the ink description file and
select the resulting curve when you print. The name of the curve should
end with -calib automatically.

Hope this helps!


--
Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no 

> I've been attempting the ink calibration process in QTR2, and 
> I've found 
> the documentation a little out of date.  My inkpattern.psd file looks 
> nothing like the one in the Calibration document.  Anyone else notice 
> this and have a way to work around it?
> 
> I tried to follow along despite the differences, and I'm 
> already having 
> a problem with the hardware ink limit settings.  According to 
> the doc, I 
> should be looking for the first swatch that shows no paper 
> through the 
> ink when examined with a loupe.  Unfortunately, my inkpattern.psd 
> swatches have another ink in the background, not the paper, 
> so I have no 
> idea at which point the ink washes out the paper.
> 
> Can anyone clarify this process?

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