QTR-Quadtone RIP

From what I'm seeing so far, I think it's best to just use the ICC profiles
for soft-proofing and not printing. I'm finding that printing an image using
the "QTR Gray Lab" profile yields better results than using a Create-ICC
generated profile with perceptual intent. The latter lightens the print
noticeably, and really kills the DMAX of the print (dropping it from 1.6 to
1.3 in the case of my custom curve for Hahnemuhle Photo Rag that I'm
currently working on).
 
I've been meaning to post a discussion about this and will try do so in the
next few days. First I want to finish tweaking my custom curve and do a bit
more testing/measuring.
 
Jeff
 


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From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of dlruckus
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:37 PM
To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Printing with ICC profiles



Hi Joe.
You need to convert to profile before printing.

Regards
Duane

--- In QuadtoneRIP@ <mailto:QuadtoneRIP%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com,
"joemulligan_68"
<joemulligan_68@...> wrote:
>
> Since the Yahoo search is not the most efficient, I hope to ask this
basic question:
> 
> How do you print using icc from QTRgui? 
> 
> I have been successful with the Create ICC program while printing on
Mac but since I am now 
> running bootcamp and Windows, how do I go about this with QTRgui?
> 
> Should I Assign Profile to the file and then print? Or should I
Convert to Profile? 
> 
> A bit confused at the moment. Thanks to all in advance.
> 
> JoeM
>