QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi David,
Would it be possible to have a copy of your UT14 ink files
As they would give me a great starting point for these papers.

Thankyou Alan.

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "dpgoldenberg33" <dpgoldenberg33@...> wrote:
>
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Eddie Wiseman" <pahts@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi David..
> > 
> > OK..sorry but my computer illiteracy is showing!..I'm on a Windoz
> Vista computer..I have the UT14 settup..I can't figure out how to
> install your files from a "description"..Windoz does not recognise a
> "COMMAND FILE..
> > 
> 
> Eddie,
>    I've not actually used QTR with Windows, so I'm afraid that any
> guidance I can offer is based on reading the User Guide by Tom Moore.
>  Perhaps Tom can jump in if I write anything misleading.  But, the
> following may help:
> 
> There are basically two kinds of file that are used with the QTR system:
> 
> 1. "Curve" files that are used directly by the QTR print driver to
> specify how much of each ink to squirt out for a given gray level. 
> These are basically just long lists of numbers and have the file
> extension ".quad".  On a Mac, the reside printer-specific folders
> within /Library/Printers/QTR/quadtone/.  I presume that on a Windows
> machine they reside is some equivalent directory that the QTR driver
> access.  One could, in principle, create the curve files by typing out
> these lists of numbers, but it wouldn't be much fun.  So, there is a
> semi-automatic means of creating them, which leads to:
> 
> 2. "Ink description files".  These are text files that specify a set
> of parameters from which the curve files are actually generated. 
> These files have the extension ".txt" on the Mac and ".qidf" for
> Windows and are the type of file that I provided.  These files are
> roughly analogous to the source code for a computer program which
> written in text by a human is then read by an interpreter (or
> compiler) program that generates the actual executable program. On the
> Mac, the interpreter that generates the curve file is the "command"
> file provided in my folder.  On Windows, there is a nice
> graphical-user-interface program, called "Curve Creator".
> 
> To create the curves on Windows, I believe that you need to follow
> these steps:
> 
> 1. Change the suffix on the file names from .txt to .qdif.  
> 
> 2. Start the Curve Creator program.  (As I understand it Curve Creator
> is part of the Windows QTR package, but you need to specify that it be
> installed when you first install QTR, or add it later.)  
> 
> 3. Open one of the qdif files in Curve Creator.  This should fill in
> the various parameter boxes.  Do not change anything!  Just click on
> the "Create Curve" button.  This, I believe, will generate the quad
> curve and save it in the proper place so that it will appear in the
> QTR dialog.  You then need to repeat this with each of the curves you
> want to use.
> 
> It is also possible to use QTR to generate "ICC profiles" that can be
> used to print without using QTR directly.  This is what Paul Roark
> provides for the UT-14 inks.  I have not really tried this.  To me, it
> is much nicer to be able to use QTR to mix warm and cool curves for an
> individual print.
> 
> I hope this helps.  If need be, I can provide the curve files, so that
> you don't have to mess with Curve Creator.  But, the downside to that
> is that you then have to worry about putting the curve files in the
> correct place.  If someone can tell me of a better way to distribute
> the curves, I'll be happy to do it that way.
> 
> As I said, I am relying heavily on the User Guide and have not
> actually done this with Windows.
> 
> Good luck,
> David
>