Hello Everyone, I'm attempting to create a new sepia tone curve for Red River Premium Matte 76 lb and I have a few questions about the process. I'm using an Epson 2200 with UC inks and the Windows XP version of QTR. I've read the tutorial by Tom Moore (many times) and the tutorial by Scott Graham (also many times). Primarily using Tom's guide I have performed the following steps which I think are correct: 1) Printed an initial Ink Seperation Test using the InkSeperation.psd file using QTRgui. From which, after letting the inks dry, determined the ink limitations for the MK and LK inks using a densitometer. 2)Next I edited a qidf file using the ink limit values determined in step one. I also set the values of the various variables found in other sepia toned qidf files found in the QTR Profiles\2200-UC folder. 3) I then created a curve from QTRgui with no linearization statement in the qidf file. 4) I've now printed a 21 step wedge file. BTW, when I printed the files I converted the embedded profile to Gray-Matte. There are two files included with the QTR distribution and I've printed both. One has small steps and is labeled 21 step grayscale linearization. The second has a smooth gradient above the discrete steps. Which is the correct one to use to linearize the curve? I assume that I am now ready to linearize since the tone of the step wedges look acceptable. However, I'm wondering if I need to set ink limits for the toner inks? From reading the tutorials I noticed this note from Tom: "Finally, there is also a secondary flag for the UltraChrome inks called UC_SEPIA=YES. With this flag the LK curve is also copied into the Y yellow ink allowing you to add yellow to make a sepia tone." I have found using this flag causes QTRgui to throw an error. Am I missing something here. I suppose I've asked enough questions for now, I do appreciate any help anyone can offer. Don Bryant P.S. Just for the record here is the listing for the qidf file I have created. PRINTER=Quad2200 CURVE_NAME=UCmk-RRPremiumMatte76-sepia GRAPH_CURVE=YES N_OF_INKS=7 DEFAULT_INK_LIMIT=70 BOOST_K=95 LIMIT_K= LIMIT_C= LIMIT_M= LIMIT_Y=10 LIMIT_LK=56 LIMIT_LC=9 LIMIT_LM=29 N_OF_GRAY_PARTS=2 GRAY_INK_1=K GRAY_VAL_1=100 GRAY_INK_2=LK GRAY_VAL_2=26 GRAY_HIGHLIGHT=4 GRAY_SHADOW=8 GRAY_OVERLAP= GRAY_GAMMA=1 GRAY_CURVE= N_OF_TONER_PARTS=0 TONER_HIGHLIGHT=2 TONER_SHADOW=2 TONER_GAMMA=1 TONER_CURVE= N_OF_UNUSED=2 UNUSED_INK_1=C UNUSED_INK_2=M UC_NEUTRALIZER=YES
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QTR Curve Creation Questions
2005-04-27 by donbga
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