QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Christoph,

I'm away from home now so I can't investigate more until I get home.
It's the /Library/Printers/PPD Plugins/QuadTone.plugin  file that gives the
dialog pages.

Roy


On 4/16/07, csprenge <csprenge@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Roy,
>
> thank you for your reply.  Unfortunately they do affect other drivers.
>
> At least, with the other printers I get a dialog box warning me that
> no QTR Curve is set and that the printing results will be
> unpredictable.  This is at least annoying as it appears every time
> I want to print.
>
> I also had a problem with printing a Postscript document with math
> symbols: many of the symbols were replaced by exclamation marks.
> I would have to do more testing to confirm that this is really due to
> QTR.  I never had this before though.
>
> Here is what I have tried so far to get rid of the problem:
> I tried Remove-QTR.pkg, but it does not work.  It keeps telling me
> that there is nothing to install.  Next, I have reset the whole printing
> system and have reinstalled in this order
> 1) the R2400 printer,
> 2) QTR for the R2400, and
> 3) the IPP printers (HP, Lanier and Xerox)
> This did not help either (same symptoms reappear).
>
> For now I have manually removed all QTR files that mentioned in the
> diagnotic script output.  Now the the QTR dialogs are gone.
>
> Any hints on how to install more sucessfully are greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
>
>
>
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" <roy@...> wrote:
> >
> > OS X seems to load extra Print Dialog pages under some
> circumstances.  I've
> > tried to
> > eliminate that as much as possible but it sounds like you've found more
> > cases.  They
> > shouldn't affect other drivers even if they are displayed.
> >
> > Roy
> >
> >
> > On 4/14/07, csprenge <csprenge@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have just installed QTR version 2.5.1 under Mac OS X 10.4.9.  I have
> an
> > > Epson R2400 and
> > > was able to get quite a nice first B&W print right out of the box.
> > >
> > > Now I have the following interference problem with other
> > > printers.  Besides my Epson
> > > desktop, I have installed a number of Postscript printers that I use
> in
> > > the office (HP, Lanier
> > > and Xerox).  I have noticed that the QuadTone RIP menu entry not only
> > > appears in the
> > > printing dialog box when the QuadR2400 is selected, but also with
> some,
> > > but not all, other
> > > printers (a HP color printer and the Xerox).  I think should not be
> the
> > > case, since during
> > > the installation process I had to choose the printer which I want to
> use
> > > with QTR, so I
> > > would expect that the others should not be affected.
> > >
> > > With the HP I have at least a choice of 'On' and 'Off' in the mode
> menu of
> > > the QuadTone RIP
> > > dialog box (where you normally chose between printing and calibration
> > > mode), but the
> > > Xerox just offers 'Gray' as the only choice and now behaves
> incorrectly on
> > > Postscript files,
> > > which is annoying. Both of these are network printers using the IPP
> > > protocol.
> > >
> > > I would like to get rid of the menu entry QuadTone RIP for all but the
> > > QuadR2400 printer.
> > > I also tried to uninstall the program using Remove-QTR.pkg, but the
> > > installer keeps saying
> > > that there is nothing to uninstall.
> > >
> > > Do I have to completely reset my printing system and lose all
> > > configurations, settings etc?
> > > Any ideas to avoid this would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Best wishes,
> > > Christoph
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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