Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for all of the input everyone.

I have learned a ton in the last 24 hours. Unfortunately, most of it at 
about 2 AM.

For the record, according to Roy, the file to use for beta 9 on Panther 
is the RGB file "inkseparation.psd"

I do, in fact, have the Eboni in the LK position and am using that.

However, I remember that I applied the BOOST to the K position which is 
unused in my current profile.

I will try again with the BOOST applied to LK.

Anyone else have this problem. I am making a matte profile so the K 
position is unused. apparently this is the ink used for all of the text 
in the calibration file, so my scales all print out without any 
numbers. I have to count patches to figure things out.

I tried re-enabling the K channel but got an error saying an ink can 
only be defined once. I know I could figure the syntax out but didn't 
want to waste any brain cycles last night (this morning).

I will post the ink descriptor tonight and hopefully I can tap into 
your collective wisdom further.

Onward!!!!


James Haney





On Jul 20, 2004, at 9:51 AM, Carl Schofield wrote:

> The low dmax you are seeing suggests that you might be using a profile
> that specifies PK ink for black, instead of MK.  Eboni is in the LK ink
> slot in the MIS UT inkset and MIS PK is in the K ink slot.  If you can
> post the contents of the curve descriptor file you are using we might
> be able to help.  You should be getting a dmax on HPR with Eboni in the
> 1.6+ range.  Also, try using the BOOST function to increase dmax (eg.
> BOOST_LK=95).
>
> On Tuesday, July 20, 2004, at 12:33  AM, James Haney wrote:
>
>> To anyone with experience with QTR on a Mac Epson 2200 UT inkset (not
>> UT7)
>>
>> I have been having lots of problems getting setup some of them based
>> upon the fact that MIS sent me mis-filled ink carts. Some tech issues
>> getting CUPS to work on my computer with Panther.
>>
>> So, everything seems to be installed and working, but the prints are
>> way off from what I am used to seeing with Piezography.
>>
>> I am using the UT-MK curves.
>>
>> The blacks are very weak (1.31)
>>
>> I am trying to follow the documentation to do a calibration but it
>> seems to have several inconsistencies:
>>
>> 1) The documentation says to use the pattern test page 
>> "inkpattern.psd"
>> but there is no such file included in the installer. The documentation
>> says that the file is a cmyk file. I found a file called
>> inkseparation.psd and inkseparation.tif but these are both RGB files.
>>
>> I tried to print them anyway but the prints were missing lots of
>> patches and contained no text.
>>
>> I just downloaded the old beta 8 installer and sure enough the file is
>> there, I will try it with that.
>>
>> 2) What is meant by the line " QuadTone RIP Curves is whatever curve
>> set you want to split up into separate inks?"
>>
>> Any help getting through this would be GREATLY appreciated. My 1160
>> with Piezo is not working and I keep getting the blue selenium 
>> problem.
>>
>> I am on a MAJOR deadline to get some prints out the door for a 
>> customer
>> by Friday.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> James Haney
>>
>>
>>
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