I've been searching the archives looking for answers to my questions and as yet haven't found anything I could grasp or that seemed relevant, mostly that I could grasp, I must tell everyone one up front that although not a complete novice a lot of this techno speak regarding QTR goes right over my head. To start you should probably know that I'm working on a PC,have an Eye 1 spectrophotometer, Epson 7600, running UC inks with matte black, have downloaded and installed the latest versions of QTR and QTR gui. I'm trying to do the lineariztion using Tom Moores TutorialV1. After printing the Ink Patern Page his instructions say to measure (which ever way you like, hardware or by eye) the patches and determine where the ink density levels off and use this amount as an ink limit to create a new set of patches. The problem I'm running into is that every different ink step wedge levels off at a different point so I don't know what to use as a limit amount. Black actually is most dense at 55 (and actually gets lighter from 75 to 100!) , cyan at 95, magenta at 100, yellow at 80, light cyan at 100, light magenta at 90 and light black at 90. I've done nozzle checks and they're all good. I've printed the test wedges three times (all numbers are different for each one when I measure with the Eye 1 but a similar pattern emerges) and I've taken out and shaken the ink cartridges. The other thing that is making me scratch my head is that in his appendix 3 there's information about using the Eye 1 to calibrate the final linearization (I hope to get to this point someday :~) ) and it talks about four reference files, QTR-21-gray etc. I can't find these files anywhere nor can I find the four corresponding TIFF files for printing that are mentioned. I know that if I can get help for this it'll be here so, before I tear out the little remaining hair I have I'd sure like to hear some ideas. Thanks a heap in advance. Sorry this got so wordy but I've tried to anticipate questions about my circumstances and methodology. Leon
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QTR linearization PC/Eye1
2005-03-19 by caelin2
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