QTR-Quadtone RIP

Jon,

We, my wife and I, have our "understandings" and "accomodations." The 4880 came about because she wanted a quick color print of our daughter, and I told her to go to Costco. Not a smart move on my part, but I had no color inks loaded in any of my printers. So I got the 4880 for my birthday present, I dare not muck it up with anything other than OEM color. I finally sat down last week and wrote up a few b/w QTR curves for it because my customary b/w 4800 is suffering banding.

I am almost to a point of abandoning 3rd party inks - but I am keeping up about the possibility of glossy compatible Piezo Sepia.

Shilesh

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "piezobw" <jon@...> wrote:
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> Geez Shilesh,
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> You have to form an ink business or something so you can justify the madness to her. I am afraid it's the only way...
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> Jon
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> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "shileshjani" <shileshjani@> wrote:
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> > Well, the old 1160 was a CMYK printer and QTR manages it just fine. So I can imagine the WF1100 may also be drivable with QTR, although I don't know how the dual K would be managed. Even if one of the K channels remain inactive, the printer should make a great quad printer.
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> > If you have one, try it. And let us know how it works out. Perhaps someone can appeal to Paul Roark because I know he has played around with it. Or, I could run over to Best Buy and pick one up for cheap. Grr, I can imagine my wife's reaction. I have a 4000, 4800, 4880, R2400, R220 all sitting around my office or closets.
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> > Shilesh
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> > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "piezobw" <jon@> wrote:
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> > > answers below:
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> > > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "shileshjani" <shileshjani@> wrote:
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> > > > Two questions:
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> > > > (1) Can you select/address MK and PK channels independently, like on a 4000? Or do you do this switch at the printer control panel? Either way would be workable.
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> > > Did not attempt this yet.
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> > > > (2) Would it be possible to keep GLOP in the Orange and/or Green channels, and drive GLOP 2nd pass overcoat using Photoshop pure color swatch? I can do this on the K3 printers with GLOP in the Yellow position. This is not the most ideal situation, but at least a fully controllable ink channel is not lost to GLOP. And it may not be possible to dial-in the most ideal ink limit for GLOP overcoat.
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> > > One would need to find the exact RGB value that ONLY triggers Gloss Overprint. This would be easy in StudioPrint. Might be a study in PS to make sure it does not send any other inks which would stain the GO. However, one would also need to find the value that triggers about 33% of the GO which is close to ideal, rather than more or less.
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> > > > This is a classic example of inquisitive users making tremendous contributions. Just imagine, are many people out there with 7900/9900 printers AND QTR, yet they never just tried the combination to see what would happen. Motto "never give up."
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> > > Now I want to find what will run the Workforce 1000. 
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> > > :)
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> > > > 
> > > > Shilesh
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> > > > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "piezobw" <jon@> wrote:
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> > > > > I printed through QuadTone 2.6 to the 7900 today. 
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> > > > > The calibration target was normal as Roy indicated. After creating 10 ink channel .quad curves, I was able to print a normal K7 output, but unable to print the additional test curves in the O & G inks.
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> > > > > But, it appears at least on Windows, that anyone can print K7 curves to the 7900. I was unable to create the K7-7900 on Mac.
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> > > > > It's a start...
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> > > > > 
> > > > > Jon Cone
> > > > > http://www.piezography.com
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