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What to do with Ink Separation Numbers from Cone K7

2009-07-23 by mberman89

I have been mulling over Roy's great reply on profiles ... and I have also been trying finding my way through making a profile, and have what I hope is a simple nuts and bolts question.

I was able to generate a set of the "Relative ink density measurement" numbers. I have been unable to find a template that I can use to put them in.

I am working with a 7600 and Cone K7 inks. 

I went to QTR folder in APS> To QTR > to profiles > and 7600_K7.  When I click on one of the K-7Quad files I get a beautiful little graph of ink curves in QTR Curve View.  When I open it in Text edit  ... It is a very long list with none of the components I can recognize from any of the instructions.  

When I open a UC.Text file in the 7600-UC folder I get files that look like the form I want   ... But they seem to have components that are geared to the the UC color ink set.

I then went into library>printers>qtr>quad-k7 folders and found the same sort of files.

Then I tried library>printers>qtr>plugin> and clicked on a Quad7600.ppd.gz file.  It went from this to a Quad7600.ppd file and changed in size from 4kb to 16 kb. Did I do something bad here??? Nothing opened.

I then tried APS> To QTR > to example inks.  Some of these looked possible .. But none seem to line up with the data I have from the seven inks I generated with Cone K-7.

So the question is what to do with a set of Ink separation Numbers for Cone K7.

Also is there anything like a spread sheet for doing the relative ink density measurements. Lots of places to get a number transposed or make a simple math mistake.

Thanks

Michael
Using mac pro/ os10.5.7 / cs3 / epson 7600 / Cone k7

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