QTR-Quadtone RIP

Mark Savoia wrote:
> I am at the beginning of trying to get QTR to see my Epson 10000. I  
> have it both connected via USB and network. If I run the Epson  
> utility from within Printer Setup Utility in OSX it sees it fine,  
> both via USB and network, and even provides status of ink remaining.  
> But if in Photoshop I set up everything correctly and ready to print,  
> it appears to rip it, but will not send the data to the printer. If I  
> just print to preview it looks fine and again if I hit the print  
> button from there I see the status bar saying it is printing and then  
> within seconds it clears and no data is sent to the printer. There  
> must be some simple thing I am overlooking.


Mark,


I'm on Windows so I may have skipped your message for that 
reason.

When I select the 10000CF at the name entry in the top right 
of the QTRgui (Windows) and for example Quad9000-NK6 as the 
printing model + feed a sheet and set sheet in QTR I get a 
print. The printer is connected with Ethernet and the Epson 
driver's spooler window shows the spooled file as well. Of 
course the print is waste as the printer has color inks. I 
have done it right now to make sure I'm not mistaken.

If you can print through the Epson driver with the network 
connection then there's something wrong with the route of QTR 
to the spooler of the Epson driver. Something begins to become 
clear now. I have both a 9000 (the quad one) and the 10000CF 
driver installed on my Windows system. Both Epson drivers. I 
can fool QTR(gui) by setting it on the 10000CF route for the 
data but sending 9000 data. It is possible that you can't do 
that with the Photoshop/Mac/QTR combination.

BTW, another approach, your printer is now  incarnated as a 
10600 if I'm correct, so you drive it as a 10600 meanwhile. 
Epson 10600 driver installed etc. Could it be that you can no 
longer send it 9000 data like I can on the 10000CF but that 
the protocol has been changed to something more 9600 like. 
What I remember of sending 9600 data to the 10000CF was some 
activity and a lot of errors and no print. Will not try that 
again.

The USB connection to the printer is to another PC system so I 
don't know whether that could be a conflict. But  this is all 
Windows so even when I tried that you can't  be sure of its 
relevance to you. I doubt that there's a conflict between USB 
and a network.


Met vriendelijke groeten,  Ernst


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