QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Alan,
I assume you're doing B&W prints.  I haven't been doing QTR printing that long myself - but set your Color Profile (EDIT-> Color Settings) in PS3 to Adobe 1998, Gamma 2.2 BEFORE you work on the image and save it as a .psd document because you will eventually ask PS to manage the colors in the PRINT dialog box.

I hope this helps a little!
Mike

--- On Sun, 8/10/08, Alan Tochterman <alantochterman@...> wrote:

> From: Alan Tochterman <alantochterman@...>
> Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] Icc Profile Question
> To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 11:08 AM
> This may be a really basic question, but I can not find
> anything on the 
> web or within this group to find my answer. 
> 
> I am using an Epson 1800 printer, Windows XP, Epson ink and
> Photoshop 
> CS3.  My results with Epson Matte paper have been less than
> 
> spectacular.  Here is my question. 
> 
> After editing my image and saving it as a Tiff, am I
> supposed to change 
> my working space (color profile) to Gray Gamma 2.2 before I
> print.  
> Since I do not have an Eye-One spectrometer, I was not sure
> what to do 
> with the image before printing.
> 
> QTR included two pre-made icc profiles, one for glossy and
> one for 
> matte papers, but I was not sure if they were for
> soft-proffing only or 
> to be used in the final file for those of us who do not own
> a 
> spectrometer. 
> 
> My results with both Gray Gamma 2.2 and the QTR icc were
> very similar.  
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.