QTR-Quadtone RIP

Ellie Kennard wrote:

> I am not doubting the wonderful qualities of Qimage for one second! I 
> love it! 


>The profiling of images... do I apply the QTR profiles in 
> Qimage before printing to file? I confess to having only a very hazy 
> idea of the workflow here.

QTR can't, so you have to apply the profiles with Qimage or 
Photoshop. There was a time that Qimage didn't like the QTR 
profiles but they should work now, at least the RGB ones. BTW, 
Qimage  will still make an RGB file of a grayscale image so 
you know that the size will be considerably increased. Not 
just 3x but the interpolation to 360 PPI included (and better 
interpolation often resulting in bigger files) and even print 
sharpening may increase the size.

> 
> I guess what I will do is prepare my whole print job (several images 
> spaced on the roll) and export as a single tiff file? 

It will be the more economic way when nesting reduces paper 
waste. QTR is limited in that and Photoshop too slow. There 
are some disadvantages: the netto size of QTR's print page is 
hard to predict and you would like to fit the print to file 
size of Qimage exactly in that QTR netto size, another one is 
related to the overall size of the resulting file.

> I was wondering 
> how I was going to space images in QTR but thought that perhaps I had 
> not read all the information yet. (I have no experience with printing 
> to file myself... not yet!)

Ernst


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