QTR-Quadtone RIP

Yes. If you can't make your own icc profiles, just use the generic
ones Roy provided(eg:RGBmatt or RGBphoto) for soft proofing in Pshop
and convert to the gray alternatives for printing. They work quite
nicely and appear to be pretty accurate.

Regards
Duane


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "davidkeasey" <davidkeasey@g...>
wrote:
>
> Without a decent densitometer, it's pretty hard to build an ICC
> profile that will give you good WYSIWYG between the screen view and
> the actual print.  I have found, however, that I can do a pretty good
> job of this by creating a custom dot-gain curve for gray-scale images.
>  While this method doesn't do anything to show the relative warmth or
> coolness of the end product, at least it will give me a reasonable
> preview of how well shadow and highlight details will show up.
> 
> The only problem with this method is that it doesn't mesh well with my
> workflow...  you must convert the image to greyscale before the custom
> dot-gain curve will work on the displayed image.  And I prefer to work
> in RGB (even though it is a monochrome image), until the very last
> step before I send the print over to Qimage for cropping, resizing,
> and final sharpening.  
> 
> So, what I end up having to do is, after converting to greyscale, add
> another curves adjustment layer to tweak the almost final image to
> achieve the tonal range and contrast that I'm looking for.  Either
> that or go back a step and then do some guesswork on the earlier
> curves and b/w conversion, then reconvert to b/w and the custom dot
> gain curve.
> 
> I'm currently satisfied that I can get a good preview of my print, but
> would be much happier if I could get the good preview earlier in the
> workflow.  If only you could have a good proof-visualization layer in
> photoshop... a layer that would non-destructively convert the
> displayed image, but would still allow you to work on the underlying
> unconverted rgb layers.
> 
> Does anybody have any alternatives for this approach?  Where you can
> see, on-screen, a fair representation of the final b/w print, but
> without having to do the greyscale conversion until you are satisfied
> and ready to send the image out for final print preparation.
>