QTR-Quadtone RIP

Tim,

You can use the regular tools provided with QTR to creative profiles for printing digital negatives. You can find an excellent primer on using QTR to make digital negatives for alternative printing at Clay Harmon's website.

http://www.clayharmon.com/techne/?page_id=2

Ron Reeder also has a book on making digital negatives. http://www.ronreeder.com/a-new-book-on-qtr

On the carbon yahoo forum (Files section) you can download a profile (text file) that I created and used with the Epson 3800 for printing carbon. To use you would drop this file into the profile section of the Epson Quad3800, then run the Install command. The program then installs a quad file that you can print either through Photoshop and other programs, including the QTR Print Tool. 

Sandy







--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <tim@...> wrote:
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> Hi All,
> 
> I took a wonderful carbon printing workshop at the George Eastman House with Mark Osterman and got hooked into the fun of alternative processes. The upshot is that I am gearing up to make carbon prints in my studio in the near future. However, I need to be able to make digital negatives first. It is the only piece of the puzzle remaining to accomplish my goal.
> 
> I pretty much use Aperture exclusively for my image manipulation (with Nik plug-ins) and image file management. PhotoShop has become too laborious and costly to keep up with their update demands. Nonetheless, I do use Photoshop to print because it has a better print engine than Aperture. I do create custom profiles with my Datacolor Spyder 3 Print SR.
> 
> I plan on adopting the QTR Print Tool for all of my color Epson 3800 inkjet printing. Are there any caveats that I need to know about for color printing using QTR Print Tool?
> 
> On a final note; and more importantly, can anyone point me towards a method in which I can create my own custom profiles using the QTR Print Tool to eventually produce digital negatives?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Tim Burak
> Pittsburgh, PA
> PghArtist.com
>