QTR-Quadtone RIP

I’d like to come to the defense of Richard on this. There is a lot of different ways to make ink curves and the ink curve method used with QTR is almost entirely optimized for ink-on-paper, not UV blocking. Richard has implemented some interesting curve work in his software as have we with PiezoDN (all-be-it for a different ink-set than K3 OEM). I would not nock his software just because you have not seen prints in the wild. This is a niche market. Software developers do not have to release free test-beta software and especially in this market where you would release a software trial, someone would calibrate their darkroom perfectly, and then possible not have to use the software again for a year or so.

Best regards,
Walker



> On Aug 29, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Mick Sang mick.sang@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> It would be interesting to try. But, I certainly would not pay $125 for it without proof that it is in every way as good or, as it is claimed through being much easier than QTR, better than QTR. It seems to me that if one could simply take all “the math, the ink descriptor text file stuff” from the QTR process “and threw it out the window” to achieve the same results, Roy Harrington would have done so by now. You know the old adage “if it seems too good to be true, it likely is.” That said, it may be true. But, it surely is incumbent upon the developer to prove it by providing a test version of the software.
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> From: <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com <mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>> on behalf of "Mark Savoia mark@... <mailto:mark@...> [QuadtoneRIP]" <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com <mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>>
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> Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 9:19 AM
> To: <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com <mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>>
> Subject: Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Using QTR and Epson k3 Inks for making digital negs on OHP
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> stillrivereditions.com <http://stillrivereditions.com/>
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>> On Aug 28, 2018, at 5:19 PM, daimone@... <mailto:daimone@...> [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com <mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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>> Richard,
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>> Somewhere around here a few weeks back you mentioned a demo Mac version might be out soon.  Did this ever happen or will it?  I'd like to give it a try...
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