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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Ink Pattern Page, printing using curves, QTR2.6.1, and mini-tutorial

2008-04-09 by Roy Harrington

I'm curious where you are reading about "curves with calibration=yes".  A very
long time ago you need to make curves for calibration but that was changed
to just use the calib ink limit slider.  It sets the ink limits for
all the inks together.
I thought I had all those old references removed.

In any case once you decide on ink limits, you start making actual curves and
will no longer use the calib mode in printing.

Roy

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:17 AM, crispycoffin <chris@...> wrote:
> Got a question regarding printing the Ink Pattern Page ala the
>  mini-tutorial offered in the files section.
>
>  Quick hardware rundown: Mac OSX 10.4.11, MacBook Pro, Epson 2200,
>  Spyder3 Studio, Epson UC ink.
>
>  I'm building some curves for Hahnemuhle photo rag and noticed, when
>  referring to the mini tutorial that one should first print the ink
>  pattern page using a curve in which you have set calibration to "yes",
>  the default limit to 100, and deleted the linearize data line. When
>  I'm in the print dialog for QTR 2.6.1 I can select a curve, then
>  select Calibration for the mode. The curve appears to remain selected
>  although grayed out.
>
>  I print this, and, following the tutorial guidelines, define the
>  limits (in this case K=53%, LK=75%) and add those values to the curve
>  file. I reinstall the curve, following the same printing procedure
>  (select the curve, then select the "Calibration" mode and print. The
>  two prints are identical. Now, does using the calibration mode mean
>  NOT using any curves (since the selection appears grayed out)? If that
>  is the case than does that mean the mini tutorial is wrong or out of
>  date? The process would seem to make sense. You would want find the
>  ink limit. Print a new page with the limits curve and then find the
>  density for partitioning. This would not work if the curve is not
>  applied went printing the calibration page. Am I wrong?
>  Oh, and I'm not color managing the file. Everything else seems to be
>  as it should.
>  Thanks!
>  coffinphoto.com
>
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