Digital BW, The Print

carl:

absolutely right - all four now installed, printing proceeding without problem. Thanks 
again.

George


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield <scho@m...> 
wrote:
> George,
> 
> The only files you should have in your CurveDropBox folder are those 
> with a .quad extension.  I think you may have moved the UT profile 
> descriptor files from their original folder (Profiles), which also 
> contains a toner-curve.raw file that must stay in the same folder with 
> the .txt profile descriptor files when you use run-quad-profile to load 
> them.  The cool, neutral, and sepia profiles all use this 
> toner-curve.raw file and the reason they didn't load is probably 
> because the toner-curve.raw file couldn't be found.
> 
> Carl
> On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 09:12  PM, george_w_barr wrote:
> 
> > Carl:
> >
> > Iv'e made some progress since I wrote the appeal - Roy replied to me 
> > and said that
> > his site didn't have curves for ultratone inks, just ultrachrome so 
> > that was probably
> > the problem. I checked and he was right. I went to your .mac site and 
> > downloaded
> > both the .8 and .9 profiles and found in the .8 profile folder the 
> > ultratone folder.
> > Inside i found all the necessary curves for cool, neutral, warm and 
> > sepia.
> >
> > Now things get interesting. In various attempts to move files around 
> > and try the
> > various applescripts and the linux programmes somehow I have the warm 
> > tone and
> > the calibration curves available and when I printed with the warmtone 
> > - lo I actually
> > got the warmtone image printed, no dots, hell it even matched the 
> > image on my
> > screen which was more than i was hoping for - I'm elated and want to 
> > thank both you
> > and Roy and all the others for the work done.
> >
> > But, darned if I can figure out how to get the cool, neutral and sepia 
> > to come along
> > for the ride. In the curvedropbox are assorted files. There are files 
> > that end in txt,
> > files that end in no suffix and two with .quad behind them, not 
> > surprisingly the warm
> > tone and the calibration curve which were the only two to show up in 
> > the printer
> > dialog box.
> >
> > So, to put me totally over the moon, tell me what I am doing wrong - 
> > how did I
> > manage to get two curves in there but not the rest. When I use the 
> > run/quad/profile
> > programme, it says the ink file is missing.
> >
> > Thanks again, making progress.
> >
> > George
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield 
> > <scho@m...>
> > wrote:
> >> George,
> >>
> >> Are you using QuadtoneRIP (beta 9) on a Mac?  Paper and profiles used?
> >>
> >> Carl
> >> On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 08:28  PM, george_w_barr wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have just purchased MIS ultratone inks and converted my 2200. I
> >>> have run some test 21 step wedge prints and some images. I noticed
> >>> the grain was barely visible in the step wedge print and in the
> >>> really light even tones in the image print, the dots are readily
> >>> visible and in fact are about .5 mm. apart.  As near as I can  tell
> >>> they are all black and no greys. I tried setting up the printer to
> >>> do sepia only and it came out the same warm black colour, slightly
> >>> lighter though than the previous print which was supposed to be warm
> >>> black. Clearly there is no sepia on this print at all. Nozzles are
> >>> fine. It's as if somehow it is printing black only instead of colour
> >>> (shades). I followed the quadtone and 2200 help files exactly. What
> >>> obvious step am I missing?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> George
> >>>
> >>>
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