On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 09:12 PM, george_w_barr wrote:
> Carl:
>
> Iv'e made some progress since I wrote the appeal - Roy replied to me
> and said that
> his site didn't have curves for ultratone inks, just ultrachrome so
> that was probably
> the problem. I checked and he was right. I went to your .mac site and
> downloaded
> both the .8 and .9 profiles and found in the .8 profile folder the
> ultratone folder.
> Inside i found all the necessary curves for cool, neutral, warm and
> sepia.
>
> Now things get interesting. In various attempts to move files around
> and try the
> various applescripts and the linux programmes somehow I have the warm
> tone and
> the calibration curves available and when I printed with the warmtone
> - lo I actually
> got the warmtone image printed, no dots, hell it even matched the
> image on my
> screen which was more than i was hoping for - I'm elated and want to
> thank both you
> and Roy and all the others for the work done.
>
> But, darned if I can figure out how to get the cool, neutral and sepia
> to come along
> for the ride. In the curvedropbox are assorted files. There are files
> that end in txt,
> files that end in no suffix and two with .quad behind them, not
> surprisingly the warm
> tone and the calibration curve which were the only two to show up in
> the printer
> dialog box.
>
> So, to put me totally over the moon, tell me what I am doing wrong -
> how did I
> manage to get two curves in there but not the rest. When I use the
> run/quad/profile
> programme, it says the ink file is missing.
>
> Thanks again, making progress.
>
> George
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield
> <scho@m...>
> wrote:
>> George,
>>
>> Are you using QuadtoneRIP (beta 9) on a Mac? Paper and profiles used?
>>
>> Carl
>> On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 08:28 PM, george_w_barr wrote:
>>
>>> I have just purchased MIS ultratone inks and converted my 2200. I
>>> have run some test 21 step wedge prints and some images. I noticed
>>> the grain was barely visible in the step wedge print and in the
>>> really light even tones in the image print, the dots are readily
>>> visible and in fact are about .5 mm. apart. As near as I can tell
>>> they are all black and no greys. I tried setting up the printer to
>>> do sepia only and it came out the same warm black colour, slightly
>>> lighter though than the previous print which was supposed to be warm
>>> black. Clearly there is no sepia on this print at all. Nozzles are
>>> fine. It's as if somehow it is printing black only instead of colour
>>> (shades). I followed the quadtone and 2200 help files exactly. What
>>> obvious step am I missing?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> George
>>>
>>>
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