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Re: New Automated QTR Profiling Tools

2016-11-21 by richard@...

I just finished the update that adds support for the 10-channel x900 printers for all the profiling tools and included a few new goodies (and a few bug fixes). If you already bought them you should have already received an email with the update. For new people:

The automated profiling tools can now be used with printers that have as many as 10-channels to make profiles with up to 8 gray dilutions (overkill? maybe, but that is the internal QTR curve creation program limit)

The CurveSmoothing tools now have a new proportional ink balancing formula and an option to match the original ink load with all channels or only the UCK3 channels. This option is great for smoothing curves with toner partitions and prevents weird color shifts from the ink load balancing. It also has a nifty black boost feature similar to the QTR K Boost setting in the ink descriptor file (you can read about that here: http://www.bwmastery.com/blog/2016/the-qtr-black-boost-setting)

The QuadLin advanced curve linearization tools have been updated for 10-channel .quad files, but are otherwise the same (for now).

A new version for making toning profiles will be coming before the end of the year.


Cheers,
Richard Boutwell

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