QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi,
While I'm sure it would be useful to nearly everyone beyond the
experts in the field, it is worth considering how those experts got to
be that way. They did not have such a glossary either.

It was mentioned in Joost's recent post that RIPs generally cost a
good deal more than QTR does. He did not offer a comparison price but
it should be mentioned that in many cases it runs from hundreds US$ to
thousands. What you are asking is for someone to make it all "plug and
play" for you. That sort of software has a history of coming with a
perpetual price that continues on and on, as witness a popular
operating system we all know of. I can't speak for Roy but I suspect
that he needs, like most of us, to make a living, and it is Not from
QTR that he does that. He simply made it available to us and continues
to update and improve it. All for a one time measly little price that
he likely doesn't even see from many who actually use his software.

The extra documentation that does exist has for the most part been
donated by users of QTR. Spend some time becoming an expert yourself
and help add to those efforts if you feel it to be so crucial.
Understanding will never come without some effort :-)

Consider also that this group has been set up to help in the very
areas you are requesting. Ask your questions and they will usually be
answered by someone. Just be patient and understand that no one is
getting rich from this. The truth is that you are getting a real deal.
The catch is that you have to earn it.

Regards
Duane


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "cmndcntrl" <cmndcntrl@...> wrote:
>
> Looking over many inquiries written by posters, I'm inclined to
think that I'm not the only one 
> who feels that the QTR Manual is poorly written. For those of us who
aren't and don't claim to 
> be tech-centric, would be helped a bunch if someone, who understands
the p's and q's of 
> this "system", would kindly take the time to create a glossary of
terms that would explain 
> what it means when dragging and dropping files (.txt) and error
messages pop up as such:
> "Printer not defined" or "The Lab values are not in order. Cannot be
linearized." If not, why 
> not? And what does the user do to define the printer and put the Lab
values in order? 
> These are just a couple of examples in what I think are several gaps
in information that 
> would help many to make sense of the how's and why's of QTR.
>