Digital BW, The Print

I am curious about what equipment people are using successfully (and easily) 
with this RIP for generating ink profiles.  Thoughts and suggestions 
appreciated.

The calc-density script that Roy has provided with QTR makes it quite  
easy to use MeasureTool files, created by strip reading printed 21-step  
gray wedges with the Eye-One spectrophotometer.  There is a complete  
description of the procedure in the Eye-One folder that is part of the  
QTR download.  MeasureTool is a free utility that is part of the  
ProfileMaker Pro demo download from GretagMacbeth (not necessary to  
purchase).

Carl Schofield

On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 05:28  PM, Dr. Robert Young wrote:

> I am curious about what equipment people are using successfully (and  
> easily)
> with this RIP for generating ink profiles.  Thoughts and suggestions
> appreciated.
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It just occurred to me that the MeasureTool supports lots of different
spectrophotometer and densitometers.  In addition to the Eye-One
it looks like a bunch of SpectroCam products, and X-Rite products.
So it's quite possible that any of these hardware products could be
driven by MeasureTool and output the same data files and have the
QTR scripts take advantage of them.

If anyone has these other densitometers it would be great to know
if this works.

Roy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield <scho@m...> 
wrote:
> The calc-density script that Roy has provided with QTR makes it quite  
> easy to use MeasureTool files, created by strip reading printed 21-step  
> gray wedges with the Eye-One spectrophotometer.  There is a complete  
> description of the procedure in the Eye-One folder that is part of the  
> QTR download.  MeasureTool is a free utility that is part of the  
> ProfileMaker Pro demo download from GretagMacbeth (not necessary to  
> purchase).
> 
> Carl Schofield
> On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 05:28  PM, Dr. Robert Young wrote:
> 
> > I am curious about what equipment people are using successfully (and  
> > easily)
> > with this RIP for generating ink profiles.  Thoughts and suggestions
> > appreciated.
> >
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> From: Roy Harrington [mailto:roy@...]
>
> It just occurred to me that the MeasureTool supports lots of different
> spectrophotometer and densitometers.  In addition to the Eye-One
> it looks like a bunch of SpectroCam products, and X-Rite products.
> So it's quite possible that any of these hardware products could be
> driven by MeasureTool and output the same data files and have the
> QTR scripts take advantage of them.

All spectros I'm aware of generate ASCII output, using standard measures
like Lab, XYZ, etc., so absolute worst case you might have to massage the
format a bit. I have the cheapie CM2C, and it can output just about
anything, in just about any format (comma-separated, tab-separated, etc.),
either to a file or as simulated keyboard input into a program like Excel or
Notepad.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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