QTR-Quadtone RIP

Isn't that because the blacks are not neutral. They are naturally warm
carbon?

Mike


On 18/10/2007, etlblbt <bill.brandt@...> wrote:
>
>   Hello,
> I have just started trying quadtone RIP and I have tried to make
> my first profile for my EPSON R2400 which is loaded with the standard
> inkset. In the ink descriptor file I have set the density values for
> the light black and light light black inks (measured using a
> spectrophotometer) and have set all the other inks to 'not used'.
>
> When I print out a test strip (the 21x4 random) and analyse it with my
> spectrophotometer I can see that the colours are not neutral (when
> converted to RGB there is quite a lot less blue than the other two
> channels) and the print visually has a brownish tone.
>
> Is there something else I need to do to prevent the colour inks from
> being used other than setting them to 'not used' in the ink descriptor
> file.
>
> Apologies if this is all in a FAQ somewhere. If you could point me to
> it that would be great.
>
> Regards, Bill Brandt
>
> 
>


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