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A QTR user may have created an ICC for ABW that they could use, but that's not typical, and not all QTR users would want to do that anyway.


Brian,


Could you help me understand what a Windows QTR user would be doing printing from Photoshop if he didn’t have a QTR profile. I’m having trouble seeing the «QTR » part of the QTR user. Is there a way of importing a QIDF curve into the Epson ABW driver on Windows or some other point of entry after sending the file from Photoshop? I can’t see why a windows QTR user without a QTR profile wouldn’t just be printing through the GUI.


Paul








De : QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com]
Envoyé : July-31-16 9:46 PM
À : QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
Objet : [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QIDF versus ICC








This secret conversion issue also applies to Windows.  It's true that you don't have to select "Printer Manages Colours" on Windows to get access to ABW in the Epson Driver, but I suspect that most ABW users will do that anyway and thus get the secret conversion.


Because if they instead select Photoshop manages colours then they also have to select a profile, and what would the average user then do?  A QTR user may have created an ICC for ABW that they could use, but that's not typical, and not all QTR users would want to do that anyway.  You can select the null conversion trick (e.g. AdobeRGB -> AdobeRGB), but Photoshop then gives you this scary warning that would put the typical user off, even though the null conversion still works, last I tried it.  Or you can fool PS by assigning sRGB, but that's not something the average user would do either.


So although there are little known workarounds to this little known problem, because they're all little known it remains an issue in Windows.


Re ACPU, the Windows version is broken, in that no matter what margins you use, it always prints with zero top and left margins.  So it's useless for image printing, unless you happen to want zero margins.  Does anyone have a working version in Windows or are they all broken like this?


[The relevance of all this to a QTR forum is that there is some mention of QTR-generated ICCs.]






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Paul (Lowry)   You did not get lost, I did, sorry.





You are right, everything concerning this secret conversion would only apply to MAC users who must select “printer manages colour” in order to have access to the ABW mode.