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Re: Anyone tried creating their own profiles for Piezography inks?

2011-09-08 by spsguru

Mike

Thank you for letting me know about this.

Do you take the linearization info and bring it into the generic piezo profile in the standard linearization line in the profile text file?

Sean

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Michael King <drmrking@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Sean,
> 
> Yes I have. Wrote a linearization tool in Excel that linearizes piezo
> profiles for my paper/printer.
> 
> Also experimented with creating QTR style profiles for piezo inks. There are
> pluses and minuses to both profile approaches.
> Jon's piezo profiles have a lot of overlapping inks and that creates a very
> smooth tonality that is very resistant to posterization.
> But lots of inks @ dmax rarely gives the best dmax.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 8 September 2011 19:22, spsguru <spsguru@...> wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I understand that the piezography profiles are not like the typical QTR
> > profiles - but I am curious if anyone has gone through the process of
> > adapting a generic piezo curve to fit thier printer- paper combination?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Sean
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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>

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