QTR-Quadtone RIP

Thanks, Carl.  I kept looking for old info in my docs and couldn't find it.

Roy

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Carl Schofield <list@...> wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
>  I'm guessing he downloaded an old tutorial I wrote that was put in the
>  files by a former forum moderator.  Perhaps you could delete it (I
>  didn't upload it so can't delete it myself) as it is no longer
>  applicable to current QTR versions.
>
>  Carl
>
>
>
>  On Apr 9, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Roy Harrington wrote:
>
>  > 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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