Sorry I can't help, as I have neither a Mac system nor the OVI inks or
profiles, however you may be best served by asking OVI for support, if
you haven't already. As far as I can see QTR doesn't normally come with
profiles for the OVI inks. If the QTR manual was supplied by OVI, they
may in addition be using QTR in a non-standard fashion. If you're using
the QTR profiles supplied for the ultrachrome inks, these use mostly the
3 monochrome inks MK(PK), LK and LLK, and only a small amount of the
other colours, so may not show much variation with the OVI inks.
Just editting the qidf file won't have any effect - it is a more human
readable (and editable) file that needs to be compiled into the machine
readable quad file that the qtr driver actually uses. That's why it
needs to be 'installed'.
On 06/06/2011 12:47, David Kachel wrote:
>
> I am hoping someone has this same combination and can move me along.
>
> I can now print a step tablet test page out of Photoshop CS5 but when
> I try
> to use the QTR supplied generic profile for the OVI hextone inks I get all
> grays, no browns. I also don't get at all, why if the profile is
> already in
> a folder in Library-Printers-QTR, etc., it needs an installer script to be
> run from within that same folder? Where is it getting installed if not to
> where it already is??
>
> I have tried altering the color space of the file in Photoshop. I have
> tried
> flattening the file. I have tried printing a flattened .tif file from
> Preview instead of Photoshop. I have tried printing as 8 bit instead of 16
> bit. I cannot get any brown tones to print. (Nozzle checks are perfect.) I
> have even tried altering the .qdif file in Library-Printers-QTRS( To
> get some
> sort of change, nothing. (Since it apparently needs to be 'installed' from
> there to some other mystery location, I understand why this last might not
> have worked.)
>
> All I want to do is open an image in Photoshop and get a QTR print
> from one
> of my images that shows me a rough approximation of the brown tones
> available from this ink set before I dig further into the Machiavellian
> calibration process that the QTR manual sets forth in its very strange
> language.
>
> David Kachel
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