Digital BW, The Print

I am trying to instaall QTR on a friends G5 Panther system amd all went smoothly 
except that when I try to set the Quadtone Settings under Printer Features in the 
driver it does not exist....

I have reinstalled QTR to no avail.  Gimp 4.2.5. Ghostscript done. Espon 2100 printer.

What am I missing?

Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Kale" <stevekale@b...> 
wrote:
> I am trying to instaall QTR on a friends G5 Panther system amd all went smoothly 
> except that when I try to set the Quadtone Settings under Printer Features in the 
> driver it does not exist....
> 
> I have reinstalled QTR to no avail.  Gimp 4.2.5. Ghostscript done. Espon 2100 printer.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Steve

Steve,

It sounds like when you Added the printer you didn't select the the
QuadToneRIP version of the driver.  See the first screen capture in 
the ReadMe file of the distribution.

Roy

Ah yes...knew it was something stupid...the problem with trying to do something in 
too short a time window

Thanks

Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" <roy@h...> 
wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Kale" 
<stevekale@b...> 
> wrote:
> > I am trying to instaall QTR on a friends G5 Panther system amd all went smoothly 
> > except that when I try to set the Quadtone Settings under Printer Features in the 
> > driver it does not exist....
> > 
> > I have reinstalled QTR to no avail.  Gimp 4.2.5. Ghostscript done. Espon 2100 
printer.

> > 
> > What am I missing?
> > 
> > Steve
> 
> Steve,
> 
> It sounds like when you Added the printer you didn't select the the
> QuadToneRIP version of the driver.  See the first screen capture in 
> the ReadMe file of the distribution.
> 
> Roy

After great luck with QTR on an Epson 7500 with Ultrachome Inks and EEM I am now 
trying to get QTR to work on my Epson 1200 with with Media Street Generations 6-
color ink set.  I can't seem to find any curves out there to use as a starting point and 
wondered if anyone has tried such a thing, or would have a direction to point me?

Thanks again to Roy Harrington and Carl and the rest of you for all the great work on 
QTR.  Between you folks and Bill Atkinson, I for one, can say you have made our 
printers worth many times what they were out of the box.

dj

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "foggy11dj" <foggy11dj@y...> wrote:

> After great luck with QTR on an Epson 7500 with Ultrachome Inks and EEM I am now 
> trying to get QTR to work on my Epson 1200 with with Media Street Generations 6-
> color ink set.  I can't seem to find any curves out there to use as a starting point and 
> wondered if anyone has tried such a thing, or would have a direction to point me?
> 
> Thanks again to Roy Harrington and Carl and the rest of you for all the great work on 
> QTR.  Between you folks and Bill Atkinson, I for one, can say you have made our 
> printers worth many times what they were out of the box.
> 
> dj

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "foggy11dj" 
<foggy11dj@y...> wrote:
> After great luck with QTR on an Epson 7500 with Ultrachome Inks and EEM I am 
now 
> trying to get QTR to work on my Epson 1200 with with Media Street Generations 6-
> color ink set.  I can't seem to find any curves out there to use as a starting point 
and 
> wondered if anyone has tried such a thing, or would have a direction to point me?
> 
> Thanks again to Roy Harrington and Carl and the rest of you for all the great work 
on 
> QTR.  Between you folks and Bill Atkinson, I for one, can say you have made our 
> printers worth many times what they were out of the box.
> 
> dj

Hi DJ,

The short answer is basically that you have to design curves for what you want.

But I'm not too sure what you want to do with the color inks in a 1200.  QTR
is for B&W (monochrome) printing so with standard G6 inks it sounds like
just black-only printing.  What did you do with the 7500 with UltraChrome?
Do you mean a 7600?

Roy

Sorry for the confusion Roy,  Yes it was in a 7600 with Ultrachrome inks (Matte Black) 
with GREAT success.  Thanks so much for all your hard work on this.  I have to play 
with the density since the curves I used are for the 2200, but other than that 
everything looks great.

As for the 1200, I was hoping I could get it to produce similar results.  I know the 
Genrations ink set is vastly different from the Ultrachome, but I thought someone else 
might have already tried this.  When printing with the 7600 on QTR is is using mostly 
just the LK and K or does it use a combination of all 7 inks to produce a grey tone? 

If the answer is that QTR is set up to use mostly the LK and K inks, I can see why this 
wouldn't be possible with the 1200 since there is no LK.

dj

> The short answer is basically that you have to design curves for what you want.
> 
> But I'm not too sure what you want to do with the color inks in a 1200.  QTR
> is for B&W (monochrome) printing so with standard G6 inks it sounds like
> just black-only printing.  What did you do with the 7500 with UltraChrome?
> Do you mean a 7600?
> 
> Roy

You're exactly right -- with the 2200/7600 the gray scale is basically
just K and LK for the basic density.  There are trace amounts of
LC and LM to get the color correct.  With the 1200 and Gen4 you'd
mainly be using just K.  You could use colors just like the Epson
driver to make grays but then there wouldn't be much advantage.

Roy

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "foggy11dj" 
<foggy11dj@y...> wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion Roy,  Yes it was in a 7600 with Ultrachrome inks (Matte 
Black) 
> with GREAT success.  Thanks so much for all your hard work on this.  I have to play 
> with the density since the curves I used are for the 2200, but other than that 
> everything looks great.
> 
> As for the 1200, I was hoping I could get it to produce similar results.  I know the 
> Genrations ink set is vastly different from the Ultrachome, but I thought someone 
else 
> might have already tried this.  When printing with the 7600 on QTR is is using 
mostly 
> just the LK and K or does it use a combination of all 7 inks to produce a grey tone? 
> 
> If the answer is that QTR is set up to use mostly the LK and K inks, I can see why 
this 

> wouldn't be possible with the 1200 since there is no LK.
> 
> dj
> 
> 
> 
> > The short answer is basically that you have to design curves for what you want.
> > 
> > But I'm not too sure what you want to do with the color inks in a 1200.  QTR
> > is for B&W (monochrome) printing so with standard G6 inks it sounds like
> > just black-only printing.  What did you do with the 7500 with UltraChrome?
> > Do you mean a 7600?
> > 
> > Roy