QTR-Quadtone RIP

Mike, Thank you.
That makes sense now. 




--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Mike Finley <mike.finley@...> wrote:
>
> You've been following the Mac instructions ... they don't work for PCs!
> 
> When you installed QTR, you should also have automatically installed a 
> second application called qtrgui - you do all printing through it, 
> including calibration. I guess thats what you mean by printing directly 
> from QuadTone RIP - and thats the only way to do it. Qtrgui also has all 
> the calibration stuff built into it (in the tools menus) - though how it 
> matches with prining with silver I don't know ... I don't know how much 
> modified the process is to cater for that.
> 
> On 29/12/2011 17:19, alxbk wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone.
> > I am very new to this so, please bear with me in case I'm asking a 
> > stupid question.
> > I'm trying to calibrate my first curve for silver and in the process 
> > of printing the step tablet.
> > Basically my problem seems to be that I can't find a way to force PS 
> > CS5 to print using QuadTone RIP driver instead of native Epson 3880 
> > driver.
> > I have been trying to follow numerous instructions on the printing 
> > procedures but some things don't line up.
> > First of all CS5 now doesn't have a dedicated Page Setup option. It 
> > would seem like it should be accessible trough the Print interface via 
> > Print Setting (is that right?).
> > Once I choose Print Settings, it takes me directly to Epson 3880 
> > properties interface. That's it. No option to specify QuadTone RIP 
> > anywhere.
> >
> > What I have been doing to circumvent this issue is saving the image 
> > file as a .tiff and then printing directly from QuadTone RIP, but I'm 
> > not sure if it's the same thing (other then being inconvenient).
> > So, If anyone can shed some light on it, I'd be very grateful.
> >
> > System information: Windows 7 64bit, Photoshop CS5, QuadTone RIP 2.7.2
> >
> > 
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