Digital BW, The Print

I am reading Tom Moore's tutorial on making curves for QuadToneRIP.  
One of the first steps is to print an ink Seperation Test Page.  Having 
selected the Options/Calibration mode as directed, and set the 
calibration slider all the way to the left (100) and clicking the print 
button, my Epson 2200 prints the Ink Pattern Page but using 
(apparently) only black and magenta inks. Ink 1 prints its step pattern 
in shades of light blue to dark purple.  Ink 2 is the same but lighter. 
Inks 3 to 7 all look much the same; white to dark red (magenta?).  Not 
at all what is illustrated in the tutorial.  Any ideas what the reason 
for this is??  Thanks,  Edward

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mastedward" <mastedward@y...> wrote:
> 
> I am reading Tom Moore's tutorial on making curves for QuadToneRIP.  
> One of the first steps is to print an ink Seperation Test Page.  Having 
> selected the Options/Calibration mode as directed, and set the 
> calibration slider all the way to the left (100) and clicking the print 
> button, my Epson 2200 prints the Ink Pattern Page but using 
> (apparently) only black and magenta inks. Ink 1 prints its step pattern 
> in shades of light blue to dark purple.  Ink 2 is the same but lighter. 
> Inks 3 to 7 all look much the same; white to dark red (magenta?).  Not 
> at all what is illustrated in the tutorial.  Any ideas what the reason 
> for this is??  Thanks,  Edward

That sounds like you're not actually getting QTR to run in calibration mode. Either you've got an old version (in which case, you really need to upgrade to the latest, or you've got the dreaded "mixed installation". Sometimes, when you install a new QTR over an older one, bits and pieces of teh old program hang around, mucking up the works.

Download QTRcleanout, run it, and it will decontaminate the old QTR versions, so your new QTR installation should be "pure".

Thanks, Koloshor.  Ran the cleanout program and then downloaded 
QuadToneRIP again and that solved that problem. Now I just need a 
tutorial to explain the rest of Tom's tutorial. . .he lost me after 
the the ink seperattion test. . .Edward  --- In 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "koloshor" <wiz@n...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mastedward" 
<mastedward@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > I am reading Tom Moore's tutorial on making curves for 
QuadToneRIP.  
> > One of the first steps is to print an ink Seperation Test Page.  
Having 
> > selected the Options/Calibration mode as directed, and set the 
> > calibration slider all the way to the left (100) and clicking the 
print 
> > button, my Epson 2200 prints the Ink Pattern Page but using 
> > (apparently) only black and magenta inks. Ink 1 prints its step 
pattern 
> > in shades of light blue to dark purple.  Ink 2 is the same but 
lighter. 
> > Inks 3 to 7 all look much the same; white to dark red 
(magenta?).  Not 
> > at all what is illustrated in the tutorial.  Any ideas what the 
reason 
> > for this is??  Thanks,  Edward
> 
> That sounds like you're not actually getting QTR to run in 
calibration mode. Either you've got an old version (in which case, 
you really need to upgrade to the latest, or you've got the 
dreaded "mixed installation". Sometimes, when you install a new QTR 
over an older one, bits and pieces of teh old program hang around, 
mucking up the works.
> 
> Download QTRcleanout, run it, and it will decontaminate the old QTR 
versions, so your new QTR installation should be "pure".