Hi to you all, I'm kind of a newbie with quadtone rip; if I'll ask you questions someone already answered, please redirect me to the thread (I've made a little search but with no great results). Here is my setup: K6 quadblack inks from Piezography with EP7000 printer, EyeOne Pro spectrophotometer; I'm trying to create a custom curve and linearization, following the pdf instructions. My doubts start as it suggest how to measure the relative ink densities. I did it his way, here is a little example: 1. I've measured the K100% (L*17,4) 2. I've measured the C100%, M100% and so on (actually they're not Cyan, Magenta etc. but gray shadows, I'll call them C,M,Y,lC,lM to be clearer). Let's say that C100% is L*23,9 3. I've found that the nearest patches in the K 21 steps are the 40% (L*26,0) and the 45% L*23,3) 4. Doing little math, I've used the Y=aX+b equation to find the interpolate % between 40% and 45% that gives me L*=C100%=23,9 and eventually I've found C100%=K44,78%. 5. I've done it for all the 6 inks. 6. I could have been using Density instead of L*, but numbers shouldn't change: D=((L+16)/116)^3 And that's OK. But... Does it really make sense to look for the nearest printed K patch? I mean: in order to find the relative ink density, wouldn't be better to do not rely on the 0%,5%,10%... 95%,100% K scale (printed with no linearisation, no known gamma), and use only the 100% patches? I can do this: 1. Measure the K100% (L*17,4) and calculate Density= 1,63 2. Measure the C100% (L*23,9) and calculate Density= 1,39 3. Write the proportion 100:1,63=X:1,39 so X=85,3% That seems to me a much logical way to find relative density. And the value is so different. Maybe I'm wrong, I'll be glad to hear from you experienced users your comments and suggestions. Best regards, Davide
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Relative ink density
2005-11-23 by Davide Barranca
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