QTR-Quadtone RIP

etlblbt 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.
> 
> 

This is to be expected. The Epson 'black' inks are a very warm tone and 
not at all neutral.

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