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QTR 2200 with UT profile advice

2004-07-23 by jhaneyzz

I have finally achieved some good success with QTR on my 2200 usint MIS UT inks.

The profile below gives me results that are very close to what I used to get with Piezotones 
on my 1160. before it went kaput.

The only thing is, the prints are pretty warm.

I need some advice from experienced users on how to increase the presence of cool toner.

The thing is, I am already using very high defalut densities and can't really increase the ink 
limit of M (the cool toner) that much.

I noticed that profies from other users have much lower ink limits than I seem to need to 
get a very dense black.

I just pulled a print with the M density set to 100 and it was a bit cooler.

Is my next step to use toner curves?

James Haney










#
#  quadtone curve descriptor file
#
#
# the printer name
# the curve name
#   no spaces or special characters, except - or _  (dash or underscore)
#
PRINTER=QUAD2200
CURVE_NAME=2200-UT-PR-neutral
CALIBRATION=NO
GRAPH_CURVE=NO

#
# number of inks must be 4, 6, or 7
# the ink limits are percentages
#   usually they are all the same but they can be individually set
#
N_OF_INKS=7
DEFAULT_INK_LIMIT=90

LIMIT_K=0
LIMIT_C=
LIMIT_M=
LIMIT_Y=
LIMIT_LC=
LIMIT_LM=0
LIMIT_LK=

#
#  Describe Usage of each Ink: K,C,M,Y,LC,LM,LK
#    All Inks of Printer must be listed
#

#
# Gray Partition Information
#  use ink names: K,C,M,Y,LC,LM,LK
#
N_OF_GRAY_PARTS=4
GRAY_INK_1=LK
GRAY_VAL_1=100

GRAY_INK_2=C
GRAY_VAL_2=49

GRAY_INK_3=LC
GRAY_VAL_3=27

GRAY_INK_4=Y
GRAY_VAL_4=6.75

GRAY_INK_5=
GRAY_VAL_5=

GRAY_INK_6=
GRAY_VAL_6=

GRAY_INK_7=
GRAY_VAL_7=

GRAY_HIGHLIGHT=6
GRAY_SHADOW=6

GRAY_OVERLAP=
GRAY_GAMMA=1
GRAY_CURVE=

#
# Toner Partition Information
#
N_OF_TONER_PARTS=1
TONER_INK_1=M
TONER_VAL_1=100
TONER_INK_2=
TONER_VAL_2=

TONER_HIGHLIGHT=1
TONER_SHADOW=0.01

TONER_GAMMA=1

#
# Unused Inks
#
#N_OF_UNUSED=02
UNUSED_INK_1=LM
UNUSED_INK_2=K
UNUSED_INK_3=
UNUSED_INK_4=

#
# the following is a special UltraChrome ink flag
# it copies the light-black curves to the light-cyan and light-magenta inks.
# this insures that the LC and LM inks are used to directly neutralize
# the color of the light-black.
# the color balance of inks is controlled by the LIMIT_... values above.
#
UC_NEUTRALIZER=NO
LINEARIZE="0.04 0.11 0.19 0.29 0.37 0.46 0.56 0.63 0.71 0.79 0.87 0.95 1.01 1.07 1.12 
1.17 1.24 1.33 1.43 1.50 1.58"

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