QTR-Quadtone RIP

Jeff - 

Thanks for the reply.  I took out the K7 inks and put standard epson inks back in to trouble shoot the situation.  I know the blues are coming from having 'colored' inks in them, but when I put the K7 inkset in and use QTR all of the light tones are completely washed over, creating a very muddy look.  I know the flushing isn't the issue because I've had the K7s in for several weeks of good printing before all of this started.

If you have any other ideas/experiences, I'd appreciate any thoughts.

Regards,

Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Randall 
  To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:47 AM
  Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: R1800 K7 driver does not work


  Not all inking profiles (.quad files the ones used by QTR for actual 
  printing) located in the Quad directory are editable, that is, they 
  don't have corresponding .qidf files stored in the Profiles 
  directory. The profiles that are listed in the Curve Setup drop 
  down are the Quad profiles.

  K7 is a bw inkset so you should not get any blues. It took quite a 
  while on my R1800 to flush out all the old original R1800 inks (for 
  me it was the blue and red that took the longest to flush). 

  --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "mdhill60_1960" <mdhill60@...> 
  wrote:
  >
  > I posted this message originally under Help!HORRID R1800 printing 
  and
  > since then I've done a bit more troubleshooting.
  > 
  > After changing out all of the software options, I decided to go 
  back
  > to Epson inks. I printed using the Epson Quad1800 rather than the
  > QuadR1800-K7 printing model and the print came out fine.
  > 
  > I know that the K7 print model won't look right using standard 
  Epson
  > UC inks, but I printed anyway just to see the result. The
  > conclusion I am coming to is that the Blue channel is getting
  > massively overdriven when using the K7 print model. People's faces
  > and what is supposed to be a white/very light grey background is
  > printed as blue/bluish-purple. Maybe a mix of blue/magenta being
  > overdriven.
  > 
  > Does anyone have any ideas? Have I set up something wrong in the
  > Epson driver that causes the K7 profile to not work?
  > 
  > One other clue is that when I look in the \Quadtone\Profile 
  directory,
  > I do not see any subdirectory for R1800 K7 profiles, only R1800-uc,
  > which makes me wonder where QTR is picking up the k7 profiles that 
  I
  > am selecting from.
  > 
  > Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.
  > 
  > Regards,
  > 
  > Mike Hill
  >



   

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