QTR-Quadtone RIP

I literally wake up in the middle of the night thinking about this exact subject, and from all that I understand about this, you can not re linearize the Piezography .quad files. If you only moved the ink positions around in the printer then you can swap positions of the ink curves in the the .quad file without changing Linearization. 

The Measure Tool like function function of i1 Profiler is a bit wonky, but it is in the linearization workflow. Select CMYK printer and you will need to load a modified .txt ref file that has a value of 0 for every step of the C M and Y steps and the data from original 21x4 ref file the gray values in the  K steps of the new file format. I can post a link to the one I created when I get on my computer later today, but I found that the i1 device has a hard time reading the patches with the new software where it is flawless with the old measure tool in PM 5. I never have problems where it is "expecting to read x patches but only read y" The i1 pro 2 might work out to be better suited for it with this new software. 

Richard Boutwell