QTR-Quadtone RIP

Joe, This is from Eric Chan's website:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/ericchan/dp/Epson3800/printworkflow.html
Scroll down until you come to this:
How to print B&W images with the ABW driver (with ABW profiles)
He's refering to ICC profiles through the ABW driver.

Eric Chan is madmanchan on many forums. He is an engineer for Adobe working on PS, ACR and LR.

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "jsservices2001" <jnschum@...> wrote:
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> If I understand correctly there are 5 (?) popular methods of printing black and white that might benefit from the Spyder3print device.
> 5. There is also the Epson ABW which can use created ICCs somehow that I am not familiar with.
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> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <roark.paul@> wrote:
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> > > ... I understand your struggle to get your head around QTR. 
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> > I have a very brief write up of how I use the spectro with Windows at http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Spectro.pdf
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> > This was with XP and an older spectro.  I'll check my new W7 64 bit and new spectro soon to see if anything has changed.
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> > > You can create an ICC for softproofing in Windows.  ICC's are only for softproofing in Windows not for printing.  You must use QTR curves for printing.
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> > Actually, I use Create ICC to make a color managed workflow with the Epson driver.
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> > What I do for the Golden Trout Workshops is step people through a series of workflows that starts with a simple Epson driver workflow, then one that uses an ICC, and finally some approaches to the QTR rip.  See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Eb1400.pdf  This was last year's PDF, but the inkset was a bit simpler and what I've actually gone back to for my own uses.
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