QTR-Quadtone RIP

Please let me butt in here. What is missing, and what I would dearly love to have, is a guide **for beginners** on how and when to calibrate and linearize (and everything else one can do with QTR).

I've used QTR without the calibration/linearization using Epson inksets, and read what information I can find, and I am quite sure I am not making the best use of the product. Unfortunately all the guides and other howto information I can find are rather sketchy and generally assume you already understand the process and why and when to use it.

Wouldn't someone like to invest an evening in writing up a description newbies can follow? For both Windows and Mac? Please pretty please? 

  - susan

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, John Labovitz <johnl@...> wrote:
>
> Can you describe a bit more what problems you're having?  Have you  
> already figured out the ink limits?  Are you just looking to linearize?
> 
> --John
> 
> 
> On 5 Mar 2009, at 3:55 PM, michaeldsji wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to add to my original post:
> >
> > It seems that the 26-page "Quad Tone RIP User Guide" also available  
> > from the QuadtoneRip web site is the most complete guide to the  
> > Calibration and Linearization process. However I find that it is (a)  
> > not Mac-oriented and thus somewhat difficult to translate some of  
> > the steps, and (b) almost 4 years old and maybe not up-to-date with  
> > the current downloads and software/hardware changes.
> >
> > A friend of mine and I spent hours pulling our hair out trying to  
> > work through even printing our first set of calibration prints until  
> > we realized whole pages in the guide could be skipped by just  
> > opening up the Ink Pattern Page in Pshop and using the Print command  
> > to proceed. Ouch!
> >
> > The "Basic Tutorial QuadTone RIP on Mac OS X" guide is very useful  
> > but only covers the printing of an image through Pshop and the  
> > QuadTone driver. It stops short of calibration and linearization.
> >
> > So... I just wanted to append my previous message to let you all  
> > know that I am familiar with these guides but have found them to be  
> > tough to understand and translate, and somewhat of a dead-end for me.
> >
> > Again, thank you for any help and assistance.
> >
> >
> >
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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