QTR-Quadtone RIP

mattchapin2 wrote:
> Hey Tom, 
> 
> Now this is interesting. I did a little investigation of the profile 
> I created using the method you suggested.
> 
> Using a text editor, I opened the .quad file that the curve creation 
> tool output, and I looked at the gloss optimizer section.  Lo and 
> behold, the first value in that section is zero. I manually changed 
> it to be equal to the second value... and voila, I get full coverage 
> of gloss optimizer on the pure-white areas of the page!
> 
> Incidentally, this isn't a perfect solution, because now the entire 
> white space on the page gets a 30% coat of glop... not just the 
> white space within the image boundaries.  Fine for an 8x10, not so 
> economical when printing a smaller image.
> 
> So it looks like this is just a minor bug in the curve creation tool.
> 
> Matt
> 
My solution to that is to apply a photoshop curve with a straight line 
from 0 to 254 - that way the maximum value is 254 and you won't have the 
problem with qtr 255 value = 0 ink.

regards
Howard