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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Profiling Question

2012-02-10 by Richard Smallfield

Thanks Paul, that was what I suspected.

I am printing with K3 inks. With ABW I print via a greyscale profile, too.

thanks,
Richard

At 05:03 a.m. Friday 10/02/2012, you wrote:
>Hi Richard,
>I can't tell from you post exactly what you're doing, but in general the
>setup you print with needs to be identical with the setup used when the ICC
>was made.
>
>The ICC will read the workspace and print accordingly. ABW is not color
>managed, so it will not behave that way.
>
>I'm not sure if this is helpful or not.
>Paul
>www.PaulRoark.com
>
>On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Richard Smallfield <
><mailto:rich%40richardsmallfield.com>rich@...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I made a greyscale QTR profile with QTR-Create-ICC for use with the
> > included Entrada Natural curves.
> >
> > I wondered how consistent the various mixes of the curves are - and
> > whether I should make my icc profile for the exact curves mix that
> > will be used (in this case, it's a split tone with neutral
> > highlights, neutral/warm midtones and warm shadows).
> >
> > I did notice that the gamma needed to be lightened when comparing
> > this QTR print with a profiled ABW print of the same photo, which
> > surprised me.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Richard

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