QTR-Quadtone RIP

Thanks Terence. I am a new to QTR but have lots of experience printing
fine art B&W. QTR has lots of controls, but they are not well
documented so results are often not predictable, making the profiling
process incredibly tedious. I am spending far too much time profiling,
and not enough time creating and printing images :( Hoping this will
change ...

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Terence Lowe <televe@...> wrote:
>
> I, too struggled with the QTR linearization process.  My approach
was to 
> try to get the best density measurements by modifying the ink setup and 
> grey curve tabs, but with the linearization array clear.  This took
many 
> iterations.  Eventually, when I thought that the measured density curve 
> was close to the ideal density curve (I plotted both in Excel for 
> comparison purposes), I linearized, printed the step tablet again and 
> checked the new, linearized density measurements to confirm (or 
> otherwise) that my final curve was good enough.
> 
> I made the assumption that it was incorrect to re-linearize the 
> linearized curve during the many iterations and so only linearized once 
> as the final step in curve creation..  I hope this was the correct 
> assumption.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Terence Lowe.
>