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Re: K7 and Ink Description File

2007-09-02 by Steven

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" <roy@...> wrote:
>Roy,
thanks but do I use the (new) profile in QTR? So, should I choose that
profile in the GUI?

Steven.


> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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