2006-09-04 by Terry Ritz
Roy (or anyone else), can anything be done to develop a profile that better handles shadows (using QTR-CreateICC or another tool)? I ve just noticed the same
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2006-09-03 by Stephen Billard
You will need curves specific to the inks. -Stephen www.sbillard.org/Stephen ... From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com] On
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2006-09-03 by Bruce Robbins
I posted last week about the problem of QTR drenching Permajet Museum Classic paper in ink (using an Epson 2100/2200, Epson inks and the Eboni matte black ink)
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2006-09-03 by akominatus
Hello. About a month ago, I tried out Neutral K7 inks in cartridges on my R1800 using Hahnemuhle PhotoRag paper, and was very pleased with the results. I
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2006-09-03 by Steve German
Would QTR work with alternate color inksets for the 2200, such as Lyson Cave Paint? Would it still generate similar results as with Ultrachrome or would it
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2006-09-03 by Jeff Kohn
I m running the latest version of QImage, 2007.208. What I don t get is that even with Printer ICC disabled (in which case no profile conversion at all should
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2006-09-03 by Roy Harrington
Hi Jeff, Nice analysis. It looks like you have covered a lot of bases. I must confess I m not a regular Qimage user -- I use PS on a Mac for all my work. But
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2006-09-02 by Ernst Dinkla
... So not much has changed in 20 months then. I have not used Qimage s CM for QTR s B&W since I discovered the same problems. Could be the BPC in Qimage s CM
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2006-09-02 by jkohn_home
Roy (and other interested parties), You may recall my discussion about whether or not it was wise to convert to the QTR-CreateICC generated profiles using
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2006-09-02 by bostoncharmschool
I downloaded QTR v2.4.2 to try it out. I m new to quad tone printing. I would like to learn to create custom curves for a an Epson R220 with an MIS UTR2
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2006-09-02 by bostoncharmschool
I downloaded QTR v2.4.2 to try it out. I m new to quad tone printing. I would like to learn to create custom curves for a an Epson R220 with an MIS UTR2
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2006-09-01 by Peter Edwards
There is no message on the printer LCD. It remains showing the word printing. The print head parks to the right with fan still running until the error
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2006-09-01 by Phil Greenwood
Just a quick note to thank Roy and Stephen for a great piece of software and interface. I have been creating my first curves (neutral and warm) for a 2400
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2006-09-01 by Roy Harrington
I don t see any errors -- the logs look like everything printed out normally. The 2 tiff read warnings always show -- they are not important. Is there a
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2006-08-31 by photog_pete
Hi, I m new to QTR and have been unsuccessful in getting it to print without this error using two different files one saved as tif in photoshop cs2 with the
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2006-08-31 by Brian Ellis
I don t think the lack of a profile can be the problem. Although using another but similar paper s profile isn t ideal, I can t believe it would have the
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2006-08-31 by edrudolpho
Hi Bruce.... most of the profiles were created while printing at 1440 dpi. I think that the ones created at 2880 have that number in their name. If you want
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2006-08-31 by Bruce Robbins
Hi Brian and Jari , I don t think the lack of a profile can be the problem. Although using another but similar paper s profile isn t ideal, I can t believe it
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2006-08-31 by Carl Schofield
The NoBlack curve is for printing on RC papers (glossy, luster, etc.) without using black ink, so if you are primarily printing matte papers with MK installed
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2006-08-31 by wharfwalker
Thank you Roy it is such a relief to know that I haven t got a duff printer. I will be very pleased to help in any way to try a fix and I will go and download
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2006-08-31 by alexander3633
... BTW, I m using a Mac G4, OS10.3 and Photoshop CS
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2006-08-31 by alexramsay@btinternet.com
Just starting with QTR, version 2.4. Where do I find a curve for Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, and where do I install it? Also, what is the UC-NoBlack curve? Thanks,
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2006-08-31 by Roy Harrington
... Hi John, This seems to be a recently introduced problem that I haven t tracked down yet. Try the 2.3.5 version I think that will work. See link at bottom
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2006-08-30 by Brian Ellis
You might try using a paper for which there s a profile. ... From: Bruce Robbins To: Sent:
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2006-08-30 by jerkankarlsson
... terrible. Black ... printing on ... profile so ... dark. Other ... Hi, the same thing happened to me! I changed from printing with 2880dpi to 1440dpi and
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2006-08-30 by Bruce Robbins
I m using QTR on a PC running XP. Files saved as greyscale tiffs as instructed and dragged to the print window. The results are terrible. Black and white
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2006-08-29 by wharfwalker
I have new 7800, I m not very familiar with it but I haven t been able to get a qtr print out of it. When I send a print I get an error message Mismatch
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2006-08-29 by Jeff Kohn
Something happened a few days ago, and now the message archive is gone. For a while you couldn t even post to the group (at least, several messages I sent
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2006-08-27 by jerkankarlsson
... Ok..how do i create a new profile?
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2006-08-27 by jerkankarlsson
... ink is ... get ink ... mattepaper ... rip. Anyone ... problem on a color image ... Eboni (Matte) Black for Photo ... and sure enough after reading ... beat
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2006-08-26 by jerkankarlsson
Hi, I´m already using a epson r1800 for colorprints( to bad its not good for b&W also) I recently got a epson 2100 secondhand and intend to use it for b&W. My
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2006-08-26 by Mr_Misty_44
I am running OS 10.4 with QTR 2.4.2b. I cannot for the life of me get the software to do the calibration. Could someone walk me through the procedure. I start
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2006-08-25 by dlruckus
Ah yes, of course. Sorry. Too late & too little thought given. Thanks. Duane
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2006-08-25 by Roy Harrington
The linearization inside of QTR is to make the driver produce consistent, smooth gradients. It s also crucial to the Tone Blending so that density variations
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2006-08-25 by Jeff Kohn
You know the more I think about this, it seems like maybe the linearization within QTR is already a kind of perceptual rendering, since it re-maps the curve to
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2006-08-25 by jkohn_home
... If my file is actually grayscale, I agree. But I often work in RGB even for monochrome images (for instance if I want the web version to be slightly
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2006-08-25 by jkohn_home
... I ll have to do some more testing to confirm what I saw, I suppose it s possible I got the test files mixed up but I don t think so. What I did was print
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2006-08-25 by dlruckus
Hello Roy. I should have asked you about why perceptual intent makes a difference with the icc on B&W instead of asking Jeff. I understand why with full color
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2006-08-25 by dlruckus
Hello Jeff. Actualy, if everything is calibrated and profiled properly, and you use the ICC profile for softproofing, it probably doesn t matter what you use
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2006-08-24 by brianmills_us
Everyone who posted here has some interesting suggestions, but the issue comes down to the ink selection in QTR and the fact that you are using an R1800
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2006-08-24 by Roy Harrington
Hi Jeff, If you are seeing a drop in dMax using the ICC profile, the profile conversion is probably being done incorrectly. It sounds like RelCol conversion
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2006-08-24 by zonepeter
Anyone have any ideas on this. I ve tried everything I can think of, including getting a new version of QTR. This is driving me crazy! Thanks, Peter ... It
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2006-08-23 by Steven
... Hi I post one in the files folder. Althought the gradation and tone is very beautiful and the blacks are real black, i still encounter some banding in the
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2006-08-23 by Jeff Kohn
From what I m seeing so far, I think it s best to just use the ICC profiles for soft-proofing and not printing. I m finding that printing an image using the
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2006-08-23 by dlruckus
Hi Joe. You need to convert to profile before printing. Regards Duane ... Mac but since I am now ... Convert to Profile?
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2006-08-23 by Scott Graham
Hi All, I originally started this group to offer something to the community for all the help that I had received, and because at the time I was interested in
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2006-08-22 by joemulligan_68
Since the Yahoo search is not the most efficient, I hope to ask this basic question: How do you print using icc from QTRgui? I have been successful with the
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2006-08-22 by David Theimer
For anyone who has to have borderless prints using qtr, simply cut your paper a half inch longer and wider and in the paper size box in qtr indicate the actual
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2006-08-22 by Paul Yesnosky
Hi Sheila, There are several people in this group and the B&W print group (I referred to in my last email) who spray their prints. I have not tried it, but
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2006-08-22 by Paul Yesnosky
Hi Daniel, Yes, clear cartridges with 1/2 having a sponge. Well, I have to admit some of it may be my fault (or the weather) but I m not sure. The first
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