QTR-Quadtone RIP

A big thanks to Roy for the trial version of his new QTR print tool for
mac. It's a great tool for printing my images and also digital
negatives. The positioning of more images in one print run is excellent.

What I am curious about is knowing what would be the best way to use a
colour profiled workflow for digital negatives and what the new tool
could contribute to this.

I generate soft proof icc profiles for my carbon transfer prints by
printing an inverted grayscale with my Carbon QTR profile and let
i1profiler generate a measurement file from the carbon printed positive.
This i1 workflow is described by Scott Martin in this article
<http://www.on-sight.com/2012/04/11/using-i1profiler-for-qtr-grayscale-m\
easurement-and-profiling/> .

QTR-Create-ICC generates the profile from this file. This profile gives
a very accurate soft proof of my final print. But it would be even
better if I could use it also when printing to finetune my negatives. If
applied to the positive in photoshop, inverted in the photoshop 'output'
dialog and then printed gives a too light negative. So ther goes
something wrong underneath. Maybe convert to profile and then invert the
image would be the best approach with photoshop. But then there's still
the OSX profile interference.

Are there any possibilities for using icc profiles with negatives
directly, with the new tool? Ideally it would be by applying the profile
to the positive and then have the possibility to print this file
inverted.
Anoteher small wish to finish with: a flip image tool would be very
nice!

Thanks again for this excellent work!

Kees Brandenburg


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