QTR-Quadtone RIP

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Joost Horsten" <j.h.j.h@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi Ed,
> 
> I'm not the biggest expert around here, but perhaps I can help you.
> 
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "edblakephoto" <blakephoto@> 
> wrote:
> >> 
> > I used the blend and shadow and midtone  adjustment to get a 
good 
> > print.
> 
> Personally I avoid using the shadow and midtone sliders. If you 
use 
> them to match your the print to your screen, I'd rather make sure 
my 
> screen is calibrated, my workflow is OK (e.g. make sure the image 
is 
> converted to the Gray Lab space before sending it to QTR) and that 
> the QTR curves are OK. If you use the sliders to modify your 
image, 
> I'd rather do this in the image file itself. But the latter is 
> personal preference. 
> 
> The blend slider I use very often though.
> 
> > 
> > Using just these sliders does it create a  basic curve ( 
profile) 
> or 
> > just send the output of the setting to the printer?.
> > 
> > If it does where does it store it.
> 
> The latest setting of the sliders is stored, but (to my knowledge) 
> nowhere a new curve is stored. That's one of the reasons I edit 
> solely modify in the image file and not with the sliders. 
> 
> Joost
>  Thanks for the reply

I think I understand most of what you said.

I asume the Gray Lab space is any one of the Adobe CS2 gray profiles

I do convert all my images to gray prior to sending to the the 
printer.

Ed