Is it possible that windows users did not experience these Epson / Adobe / Apple changes since CS3, or could these changes be unapparent to windows users? I’m still using QTR profiles much as I did in CS3 with seemingly no difference.
Given what you say that the QTR relative table does not include BPC, Is it conceivable that converting to the QTR profiles in an ICC work flow using the relative table would allow printers to use a target adjustment to manually remap DMAX and threshold values? I ask this question because here and elsewhere when I have inquired about QTR with relative rendering, I am simply told the QTR profiles must be used with the perpetual table.
I think I‘m starting to get an inkling of the paradigm shift between what we are calling ICC workflow and QTR linearization curves. If my inkling is correct then these curves are meant to be far more than media type (ink level) settings which attempt simply to even out the distribution of ink on various papers. If I understand the discussion here, these curves seem to play a role in translating data to those levels. In which case, they would be replacing colour management on a data to specific paper/printer combination basis, as long as the same source space was always being used.
Is that a fair appraisal?
Eugene