QTR-Quadtone RIP

Ross,
    I don't have any recent experience with PS Elements, and none with QTR and Elements.  But, in recent versions of PS on the Mac, it is impossible to turn off color management.  There are two ways that I know of to print without color management:

An Adobe utility: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/no-color-management-option-missing.html

Roy's QTR-Print-Tool program:http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRprinttool.html

For the ink separation page, it is also important to choose the "Quadtone Rip Calibration" mode in the QTR panel of the print dialog.

I haven't used either of these much, but I just tried the Adobe utility, and it seems to do what it is supposed to, at least with OS 10.6.8

I hope this is helpful.

David



--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "rossfmj"  wrote:
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> Once again, having slept on the problem I think I've come up with a solution, but I don't think it's the ideal or correct solution.  I don't think I am able to use the original colour space used for this image and this is throwing my calibration and profiling out.
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> In Elements Edit: Color Settings, I have selected "Always Optimise for Printing"
> With File:Print selected: More Options: Color Management: Color Handling Photoshop Elements, the Color Space is showing as Adobe RGB (1998).  I feel this may be being assigned somewhere in elements, rather than being the original colour space.
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> The next dialogue box shows under Color Matching that Color Sync is selected, there is an alternative selection for QuadToneRIP, but both these are greyed out so are non selectable.  I can then print in QTR calibration mode.  I have no option for "no colour management" at the printing stage, however I think I've read that although Color Sync is selected, it doesn't necessarily mean it's doing anything, so may be equal to no colour management.
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> The calibration prints are showing Ink 1 (UT14-4-K Eboni Matte Blk) step wedges which are very dark.  Having reset the ink limit, in this case to 30%, paper white has a density of 0.08, the 5% step is 0.28, 50% is 1.29, 70% is 1.51 going up to 100% in increments of 0.03 to 0.01.  I would have thought this wedge should be lighter and much more even.
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> Does anyone know what the original colour space was for the inkseparation6.tiff was?  
> Is there a copy of this in one of the options I have available?; sRGB IEC61966-2.1, Adobe RGB (1998), Apple RGB, Color Match RGB, Camera RGB Profile, e-sRGB, Generic RGB Profile, QTR RGB Lab, QTR_RGB_Matte_Paper, QTR_RGB_Photo_Paper.
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> Any advice welcome.
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> Ross
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> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "rossfmj"  wrote:
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> > A few days ago I managed to print the ink separation.tiff successfully, however I've now forgotten how to do it (note to self, write down absolutely everything).
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> > The print procedure using PS Elements 11 in Apple OSX 10.8.2 is different to that shown in all the documentation I've read, which doesn't help matters.
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