QTR-Quadtone RIP

What I would suggest for anyone starting out who wants to build custom QTR environments for their printers/paper is to start with a dummy environment for that particular media type. You can find many in the "Profiles" folder found in the QTR Application folder. You can also find many on this forum in the Files section. There are even more out there in repositories that the users on this forum have supplied. Basically all of the inkseparation issues for every major paper and supported Epson print-head type have already been figured out. And if they haven't you can take a similar QTR environment (profile/curve) and tweak it manually just a bit to get the ink densities right.

After this you can simply linearize (make all the ink densities for each tone print correctly) the quad curve (if you have a spectrophotometer like the i1) and then build an ICC profile for it to further "tune" it. You really don't have to go through the whole inkseperation thingy unless you're printing down onto some totally foreign material (say Kozo paper or Rice paper, etc.)

That is the easy and fast method and it has certainly worked for me. I've only had to go from scratch maybe 2 times. I didn't mean to put you down somehow vis a vis experience, etc. I think we all welcome newcomers here. It's probably worth it to ask questions politely first, however, instead of making statements. You'll probably learn what you want to know faster that way Mike.

All the best,
Walker