Digital BW, The Print

David,

I've sent you an email with an attachment containing the 2200 profiles  
I'm using now, after the dot weighting adjustment that Roy mentioned in  
his post.  You might want to re-linearize the profiles after you make  
the GP dot weighting adjustment.

Carl

On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 10:16  AM, David Wroblewski wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> First a quick update, then a question:
>
> I've got Roy's QTR software up and cooking under redhat 9.
> Thanks to Roger Sopher and Roy for help and preliminary
> installation notes. Installation was almost painless--we
> discovered one idiosyncrasy with configuring the CUPS printing
> system, which involved changing some processing rules; I've
> created a file of additional CUPS MIME rules that resolve
> the issue for me, which Roy and Roger now have.
>
> I'm driving an Epson 2200 loaded with standard UC inks.
>
> To get started, I'm printing tif's from Linux using the
> qtcups utility, and the output is lovely. So far, I've sunk
> about a buck (3 blank CD's used to burn the RH9 ISO images)
> and 30 hours of sweat equity into this project. Not a dongle
> in sight, either. :-) I'm using a worthless old PII 333 MHz
> PC to run RH9. 128 MB memory, 6GB HD.
>
> Now my question:
>
> When I print the 21Step image using the curve EEM_2200-cool I
> see two very distinct hitches in the continuous ramp, one above
> the 60% patch and one above the 90% patch. After running my first
> calibration series last night, I got the same thing in my own
> profile, shifted to slightly different positions.
>
> Except for the discontinuity at those two points, the ramp
> looks great, cool and smooth with delicate highlights and a
> velvety black at 100%.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Do others see this? The settings I
> used were:
>
> Dither: Adaptive Hybrid
> Image Type: Photograph
> Ink Type: Seven Color Photo
> Resolution 1440x720 Highest Quality.
> Blend Curves 1 and 2: 100-0
> Quadtone Rip Curve 1: EEM_2200-cool
>
> -David
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