QTR-Quadtone RIP

OK…so if I understand correctly, if one is using Jon's new color inks with his QTR profiles/and Piezography inks with his QTR profiles, than one should be absolutely fine?

 

From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 2:58 PM
To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Creating custom gray ICC profile (QTR workflow)

 

  

unfortunately there are profiles and there are profiles... you are exactly right that supplied "profiles" from Cone, or those supplied with QTR itself for other inksets and OEM, are more than sufficient for excellent printing.
Essentially they are curve sets to control the inks, how they partition, and overall linearity. If you are working in a grayscale space for which they were designed, no "ICC profiling" is really necessary. But an ICC profile is a different animal than a profile used as a curve set directly in QTR, totally, and they are not interchangeable.
The profiling in some of these current threads involve making ICC profiles, with tools supplied in the QTR download, for color or grayscale space conversions, or for softproofing.
One example for a viable use of one would be- I prefer to work in a grayscale space, for my own reasons, other than graylab for general QTR work, or gamma 2.2 for piezography qtr work. So when I print, I have to convert to a profile suited for QTR in the photoshop print dialogue before I ever get to the QTR settings... That's why Roy supplies Gray_Matte_Paper.icc and more.
Hope I have not muddied the waters, there's more to it than that others may be better at articulating