QTR-Quadtone RIP

Thanks Roy. 

So if I understand you correctly, this curve is "lowering" or
lightening the black because the paper won't accept pure black? Is it
lightening the black or applying less ink?  

And when I applied the raw curve (UCmk-raw-neut.qidf) when I
printed--which has a blank linearization table--it printed, or tried
to print, full black to white? 

Best, David. 


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" <roy@...> wrote:
>
> Hi David,

> 
> It's actually white to black.  The numbers are luminosity values ie.
Lab.
> 96.86 is paper white, 16.15 is dMax.   The numbers are all just readings
> from a stepwedge.  You may also see some in density numbers going from
> say 0.04 to 1.67 for instance.
> 
> What linearization does is apply a correction curve
> based on these values.
> 
> Roy