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Re: New member asking for A's

2005-11-17 by edymagno

Roy,
Clever thing to put gloss like this. However  your directions are non 
understandable to me, because I'm a newbie.
If I finally get the E1800 I will seek your help explaining this thing further.
Best
Ed


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" <roy@h...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tony,
> 
> You are right the idea is to put Gloss in the areas that have no ink.
> By  'putting it into the profile' I just meant that you need a curve in the
> profile for that ink.  Unlike the other inks you'd probably use a simple
> curve using coordinates.  Here's an example:
> 
> CURVE_GL="0;60 20;40 50;0 100;0"
> 
> On Mac you'd edit this into the ink descriptor, on PC this would go in the
> custom curve section.
> 
> Roy
> 
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Riley" <listsubs@a...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Roy
> > Can you elucidate further re the Gloss Optimiser?
> > I thought it only laid down in areas which were light or completely
> > deficient of ink....eg paper white.
> > What exactly do you mean by 'putting it into the profile' ?
> > 
> > TonyR
> > 
> > On 16/11/2005 04:26:55, Roy Harrington wrote:
> > > Hi Ed,
> > > 
> > > There
> > > aren't many photo paper w/ PK profiles.  The old UC inks
> > > have a lot of bronzing which is pretty objectionable.
> > > 
> > > The R1800 ought to be able to remedy this with the gloss opt.
> > > Putting GL on the prints is a matter of putting it into the profile.
> >
>

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