I'm trying to design my first QTR curves and I have some basic questions I hope someone can answer. 1. When I print out the calibration page to determine the default ink limit, should I then print it again with the new limit set before determining relative densities? The calibration tutorial in the QTR release doesn't mention this, but Tom Moore says to do it in his user guide. 2. I'm confused by the explanations in both the calibration tutorial and the Tom Moore guide about how to choose the ink limit. In my case, the limit values for the black ink was near 90%, but it was at 100% for the lighter inks. Should I have chosen 90 or 100? What exactly is this default limit doing? And why not just set it to some arbitrary value and set the limits for each ink individually (which is what I actually did). 3. When I printed the 21-step target to perform the linearization, the density at 100% was less than the density I'd obtained on the calibration page (down from 1.65 to 1.59 -- this is on EEM, so these numbers do seem reasonable). What caused this? I guessed that it might be the gray overlap, so I set that value to zero, and it seemed to fix the problem. Was that the right thing to do? 4. When I come to do the actual printing, should I be using an ICC profile? I assumed not since I've linearized. If I now make curves for different tonalities and set up a particular mixture I like, is that the point to create an ICC profile with CreateICC and to use that? 5. The QTR manual shows a page setup feature for overcoming the infamous Epson centering problem, which I have on my 2200. But the feature didn't appear for me. Does that mean I have not fully installed QTR? Or has that feature gone in 2.5? Or isn't available for the 2200? Any comments or advice would be much appreciated! --Daniel
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questions about curve design
2007-06-13 by Daniel Jackson
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