Hello…
I’m following Diallo’s document “Quiadtone RIP, A Better B&W) to create a custom grayscale ICC Profile. I use a Mac (Mavericks 10.9.4), Epson7900 and XRite’s i1Pro. The Diallo’s document uses “Profile Maker” which doesn’t run on my Mac and elsewhere it was suggested to use XRite’s Colorport2 (which seems to work with my Mac).
I’m having trouble creating the target in Colorport2. As written in the Diallo’s document I’ve tried to load the “QTR-21x4-random.txt” file in the “QuadTone Rip/Eye-One” folder and it fails with the message “0 patches” imported. Colorport2 docs mention that the file should be either “tab delimited” or “Comma Separated Values”. So, I imported the file to Microsoft Excel and Pages and exported it as a CSV file. Now when I import this file I get the message “There was a problem importing this file”.
Not making progress with this I tried the method described in “Northlight Images” -
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/bw_printing/bw-print-correction.html
The patch sets the author uses and has made available for download (NI-51-step.tab and NI-21-step.tab) need to be imported by ColorPort2 using the CMYK space; the PSD file of patches (21-step and 51-step) are in grayscale mode. Just wondering if there’s a reason why they need to be imported using CMYK space
Any help with this would be very much appreciated.
Best…
-chetty