Digital BW, The Print

Thank you for the help.  The printer profiles are now installed in 
the correct location and the printer is producing output, yet it 
looks terrible and I am sure it is due to some mis-step in my set-
up. I have tested by printing the same  image from QTRGUI and 
directly from QTR and the output is the same - the image is blurry, 
choppy, almost indistinguishable from the original image. It also 
places the image along the bottom edge of the letter size page, even 
when I select center image in QTRGUI.When I print from Photoshop 
through the Epson driver directly, the output is fine. It is a 
grayscale .tif in 8 bit. I have included the lines from QTR DOS when 
I print the image. One line mentions that a network connection can 
not be found on LPT3 - this is where I have my loopback adapter. Is 
this the issue? Checking the status of it, it staes that it has 
limited or no connectivity. Again, it is a WIN XP Home machine. Any 
help is appreciated --

 
>set FILE="C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My 
Pictures\My Pictures
\J 2004 11 06 Halloween-Montshire\Jason Car 2.tif"
>set PRINTER=Quad1280
>set PAGE=Letter
>set TOP=
>set LEFT=
>set CURVE1=UT2-EEnhMatte-neutral-2
>set CURVE2=UT2-EEnhMatte-carbon-2
>set BLEND=90
>set PRINTERHOST=
>set RES=1440x720hq2
>cmd /c "C:\Program Files\QuadToneRIP\bin\quadtoneprint"
>if NOT DEFINED PRINTER (goto badprinter )
>if NOT DEFINED FILE (goto badfile )
>if NOT EXIST "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My 
Pictures\My Pict
ures\J 2004 11 06 Halloween-Montshire\Jason Car 2.tif" (goto 
badfile )
>set QTR=C:\Program Files\QuadToneRIP\quadtone\Quad1280
>if NOT EXIST "C:\Program Files\QuadToneRIP\quadtone\Quad1280\UT2-
EEnhMatte-neut
ral-2.quad". (goto badcurve )
>if DEFINED CURVE2 (if NOT EXIST "C:\Program 
Files\QuadToneRIP\quadtone\Quad1280
\UT2-EEnhMatte-carbon-2.quad". (goto badcurve ) )
>if xLetter == x (
set /P PW=Enter Page Width:
 set /P PL=Enter Page Length:
)
>if xLetter == x (set PAGE=Custom.xin  )
>set SETSIZE=PageSize=Letter
>if x == xlandscape (set SETORI=landscape=yes )
>set SETPOS=position=center
>if not x == x (set SETTOP=topmargin= )
>if not x == x (set SETLEFT=leftmargin= )
>if x == x (set PRINTERHOST=RUSH )
>if "x" == "x" (set SHARENAME=Quad1280 )
>set PPD=Quad1280.ppd
>set PAPER=Matte
>set OPT1=PageSize=Letter position=center
>set OPT2=PPD=Quad1280.ppd PRINTER=Quad1280 MediaType=Matte 
Resolution=1440x720h
q2
>set OPT3=stpImageType=Continuous stpDither=Ordered ColorModel=QTRIP
>set OPT4=ripCurve1=UT2-EEnhMatte-neutral-2 ripCurve2=UT2-EEnhMatte-
carbon-2 rip
Blend=90
>set OPT5=
>set OPTALL=PageSize=Letter position=center    PPD=Quad1280.ppd 
PRINTER=Quad1280
 MediaType=Matte Resolution=1440x720hq2 stpImageType=Continuous 
stpDither=Ordere
d ColorModel=QTRIP ripCurve1=UT2-EEnhMatte-neutral-2 ripCurve2=UT2-
EEnhMatte-car
bon-2 ripBlend=90
>set Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32
\Wbem;C:\Program Fil
es\QuadToneRIP\bin
>set LogPath=C:\Program Files\QuadToneRIP
>net use LPT3 /delete
The network connection could not be found.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2250.
>net use LPT3: "\\RUSH\Quad1280"
The command completed successfully.
>imagetoraster 1 1 1 1 "PageSize=Letter position=center    
PPD=Quad1280.ppd PRIN
TER=Quad1280 MediaType=Matte Resolution=1440x720hq2 
stpImageType=Continuous stpD
ither=Ordered ColorModel=QTRIP ripCurve1=UT2-EEnhMatte-neutral-2 
ripCurve2=UT2-E
EnhMatte-carbon-2 ripBlend=90 " "C:\Documents and Settings\All 
Users\Documents\M
y Pictures\My Pictures\J 2004 11 06 Halloween-Montshire\Jason Car 
2.tif"   2>"C:
\Program Files\QuadToneRIP\QTRLOG1.TXT"  | quadtoprinter 1 1 1 
1 "PageSize=Lette
r position=center    PPD=Quad1280.ppd PRINTER=Quad1280 
MediaType=Matte Resolutio
n=1440x720hq2 stpImageType=Continuous stpDither=Ordered 
ColorModel=QTRIP ripCurv
e1=UT2-EEnhMatte-neutral-2 ripCurve2=UT2-EEnhMatte-carbon-2 
ripBlend=90 "  1>LPT
3 2>"C:\Program Files\QuadToneRIP\QTRLOG2.TXT"
>net use LPT3 /delete
LPT3 was deleted successfully.
>goto done
>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen 
Billard" <stephen@s...> wrote:
> Something went wrong when you installed the 1270-UTC-PC.zip files. 
That
> Install1270 batch file should have populated a the QuadTone folder 
with a
> folder named Quad1270 and placed the curves in that folder. It 
should also
> have placed a file in the PPD folder named Quad1270.ppd.
> 
> QTRgui gets the items to populate its drop-downs from these 
folders. If they
> are empty, the drop-downs will be empty.
> 
> -Stephen
>  www.sbillard.org/Stephen

snip

> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: jarrrush [mailto:johnr@v...]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:46 AM
> > > > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Subject: [Digital BW] QTR and QTR GUI Install Issue
>> > > > I am on a WIN XP Home machine with an Epson 1270 printer. I 
have
> > > > installed beta 3 of QTR and the latest QTR 3.44 GUI 
interface, 
> > > > created a shared printer, and created the windows looped 
feedback 
> > > > adapter since I am not on a networked printer. When I open 
QTR 
> > GUI, 
> > > > I get the following message "No printer definitions found. Be
> > sure 
> > > >