QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Roy,

From the communication I had with Inkjetmall they said
there were no QTR curves and that the only way to get
them would be to get a densitometer (and offered to
sell me one) and do it my self. There was no mention
of curves to be delivered later.

While at some point I certainly see an OneEye in my
future it does put up quite a barrier to try them if
you don't already one a densitometer. What if you
don't like the ink tone? Will they refund the
densitometer? I don't think so. 

I think we all want good access to high quality third
party inks. Epson has a real good contender for the
mainstream market with the K3 inks and existing
support for legacy inks. To continue to thrive the 3rd
party vendors are going to have to make it easy for
new customers to try their products. MIS does a fairly
good job here (at least with Paul's curves -- they too
seem to be missing the QTR boat), MediaStreet seems to
be going in the right direction. Cone and Inkjetmall
after making such a big point of how they will be used
with QTR and then not delivering curves are not even
out of the blocks.

Guy


--- Roy Harrington <roy@...> wrote:

> 
> The K7 inks have been available for test on the
> 2200.  The inks will be
> available for the 4000.  The profiles just take a
> little while but they
> will provide them.  For those who already have a
> spectrophotometer
> I imagine you could get the inks before the profiles
> are available.
> Making your own profiles wouldn't be too difficult
> if you already have
> done that kind of thing.
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, guy washburn
> <guido02474@y...> wrote:
> > I've been talking to them about K7 as well. The
> idea
> > of having to spring for a spectrophotometer to try
> the
> > inks doesn't seem like great marketing. Didn't Jon
> > Cone when he was posting about the K7 set several
> > weeks ago say that they would be providing QTR
> > profiles for these inks? 
> > 
> > Guy
> > 
> > --- rdpritchard <rdpritchard@g...> wrote:
> > 
> > > I am looking into the Piezography K7 inkset (for
> my
> > > Epson 4000) which 
> > > is a monochrome inkset with 7 dilutions of
> black.
> > > They tell me the 
> > > inkset will work fine with QTR.  I am wondering
> if
> > > anyone has had any 
> > > experience with this inkset yet, especially how
> > > difficult it is to set 
> > > up curves and lineraize with them.  Also, any
> > > experience with the 
> > > quality of the images would be great.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Bob
> > > 
> 
> 
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