QTR-Quadtone RIP

There is (was - don't think it is available now, but was a free  
download) a little utility called Quickread that will allow the Pulse  
to read strips without a TID.  I have the Mac version.  I think  
Quickread was actually a precursor to ColorPort because the GUI looks  
the similar.

Carl


On Jan 12, 2007, at 2:22 PM, koloshor wrote:

> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "George Butch" <GButch@...> wrote:
>>
>> I have found a couple dealers who still stock the Pulse at a
>> reasonable price.  I am looking for some guidance here.  Should I buy
>> this apparently discontinued product, and is it really the best
>> moderately priced tool for my two stated purposes?
>
> Well, I had the most interesting experience with my new Pulse, and
> traded some other Pulse stories on dpReview.
>
> http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1003&message=21563726
>
> To summarize: my particular Pulse came from Adorama. It was factory
> sealed, not used, but it was about two years old (X-Rite doesn't care,
> their warranty starts from the purchase date, not the manufacturer
> date). It needed a firmware update, and some of the packing material
> had outgassed a substance that we Pulse users have come to call
> "slime" all over the printer calibrator and monitor calibrator. It
> cleaned right up, and the cleanup was necessary because the slime was
> also on the outer lens and was keeping the Pulse from calibrating.
> Once cleaned up, I checked the Pulse for accuracy against a big bench
> spectro, and it was on within 1 delta E (very good, beyond your
> ability to notice visually).
>
> Now, this aside, the Pulse requires a few tricks for working with
> monochrome RIPS. Normally, the Pulse can't read strips on a monochrome
> target, it has to be used in patch reading mode, which is much slower.
> In order to read in strips, the firmware in the Pulse needs to read a
> color coded strip at the top of a target called the "Target ID" or
> TID, and three color coded blocks at the beginning of each row of
> patches called the "Row ID" or RID. (The latest Pulse firmware
> provides a "no TID no RID" mode, but no software currently supports
> this). Several of us have been getting around this by printing targets
> on a color printer, then cutting out the TID and RID and pasting them
> on a monochrome target.