Hi All,
Between Brian and 2 Pauls you guys know more than I about Win 10.
The QTRgui situation is a bit problematic. As was mentioned I don't have any way to
fix or modify it so it's stuck at the current version. The good news is that it works
fine for printing for all cases I know. The first problem is the 10 ink printers -- curve
creation and just curve viewing fails because the last update was back with 8 ink printers.
But since the actual printing is in the back end driver I've been able to update that
just fine -- so you can print to 10inks and use curves designed with all 10 inks.
The second problem is with Win 10 and all the curve creation part of QTRgui.
The whole VirtualStore issue is a bit of a pain but I think its all possible to
work around it. But again as far as I know all the printing functions work fine.
If people really want to make 10 ink curves I think its possible to do this more
manually -- Notepad editing of .qidf files. Let me know. I need to learn a bit
about these VirtualStore mysteries.
I've been trying to find someone to help with some new Windows code. So that's
a possibility. Maybe just a new Curve Create.
(btw, no apologies needed for anything. I totally encourage any ways to get
the results you want. Paul has done amazing work in figuring out some of the
Epson drivers by using specially tailored inks for it).
Thanks for all the help,
Roy
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:57 PM, paulmwhiting@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@...m> wrote:
Paul,
I'll do what I can...
Actually the thread ended sometime in November and I chimed in a bit late. One issue was as you noted, about the Curve Creator. For some reason, the quad file is indeed generated but it doesn't get saved in the quad folder because under some accounts in Win 10 the quad folder is locked. The quad file gets saved in the "Virtual Store" - which I had never heard of. However, no matter where they are stored, QTR finds them and lists them in File/Open, as you noted. The reason it gets stuck is that the file is not where QTR is used to seeing it - the little green circle keeps spinning but in fact the quad file is just fine, over in the Virtual Store. (Today my computer repair person fixed the regular quad folder by running my computer under another account so that folder now accepts new quad files as in the past.)
Along with that discussion, it turns out that although QTR is now up to version 2.7.0.0 but the GUI is only at 2.0.0 (or close to that). Roy continues to support the main print engine but the GUI developer apparently is no longer involved. Since some printers now use 10 carts, the GUI is therefore short on positions.
At that point, I commented that I thought you said, and please correct me if I'm wrong, that you are currently researching a cooler inkset using cyan or blue in the yellow cart position and, that it might be possible to use the Epson printer interface at some future date. Now, I've never used ICC's but it's my understanding that we'd then have to develop different ICC's to get different warms and cools with various inksets and papers - they would do the job that quad files now do in QTR. I apologized to Roy in advance, I didn9;t want him to think I don't appreciate QTR.
HTH,
Paul W.