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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: K7 and Ink Description File

2007-08-31 by Roy Harrington

Steven,

Just use the ICC profile you created for printing you'll get exactly the same
effect as relinearizing the QTR profile plus you get the color
management system to
match it to the embedded profile of your image.

Roy

On 8/31/07, Steven <fineartphoto_steven@...> wrote:
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" <roy@...> wrote:
> >
> > The K7 profiles are supplied by the Piezo people and they can not be
> > relinearized
> > in the standard way since they don't have .qidf files.  In practice
> its
> > probably not
> > absolutely necessary - the new printers are very consistant.
> >
> > Another way to do it though is to use ICC profiles.  You can create
> an ICC
> > profile
> > with QTR-Create-ICC and have the same benefit as relinearizing and get
> > softproofing
> > in Photoshop too.
> >
> > Roy
> >
>
>
> Roy,
>
> I did use QTR-Create-ICC and have a profile which I use for
> softproofing in PS. But what about the relinearizing? What do I have to
> do with the 'new' profile?
>
> (btw: the custom profiles from IJM for K7 are very linear already when
> I measured them with a specrometer and 'trhow' them on the
> Linearize.exe)
>
> thanks, Steven.
>
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