QTR-Quadtone RIP

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Keith Schreiber
jkschreiber.com




> On Apr 14, 2016, at 9:58 AM, mattbaily@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Being early days in my adventures with Quadtone rip, I have plenty of questions. When printing from Photoshop CC (Mac OSX) do I set the following to these values in the print settings dialog?
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> Color Handling: Photoshop Manages Colors
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> Printer Profile: QTR_RGB_Matte_Paper (I am printing on matte paper)
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> Send 16-bit Data: yes
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> Rendering Intent: I left it on Relative Colorimetric but is Perceptual better?
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> Black Point Compensation: yes
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> Under Printer Settings I set:
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> I select 16 bit, my paper curve, and the various quality settings.
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> I suppose my main question is:
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> Should I use Photoshop for color handling like I have set above, or should I specify that printer manages color and select QuadToneRip within Printer Settings > Color Matching? Can any one give an explanation of best practice here?
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> Thanks,
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> Matt
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