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Issues with El Capitan?

2016-08-13 by parkersmithphoto@...

I recently bought a new Mac computer, switching from Yosemite to El Capitan. Now, when I am printing to my Quad4900, the prints are coming out posterized.

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Boost K

2016-08-11 by Stefan Christiansen

I won t go into partitioning, my ink set is not designed for that. Modifying the .quad file is the route I will go. Thanks for showing it. Stefan Christiansen

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Boost K

2016-08-11 by richard@...

This is what I expected. The individual ink curve settings at the bottom are overriding the boost setting. For the boost setting to work you need to let QTR

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Boost K

2016-08-11 by Stefan Christiansen

Richard, If something isn t right, it might be due to the over-simplification of my profiles. To much info delated? They work anyway, except for the boost

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Boost K

2016-08-10 by Stefan Christiansen

More to learn and understand that I thought… My profiles are very basic, all channels following one curve, no gray partition. I tested two profiles, with and

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Boost K

2016-08-10 by Roy Harrington

Thanks, Richard. Nice demo and graphing of the boost effect. Also very good demonstration of testing and figuring out what a feature does. ... For the math

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Command line arguments for QTRGui

2016-08-10 by donsbryant@...

Can anyone comment if it is possible to pass command line arguments to QTRGui? If so what those might be? Best regards, Don Bryant

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Re: Epson 9700 support?

2016-08-10 by richard@...

Mark, email me and we can work something out. I have templates for k4 profiles, but would need some more info with what inks and measurement devices you re

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4 ink quad black setup?

2016-08-10 by Mark Savoia

QTR newbie. Is there someplace that will give me step by step instructions on how to create a curve descriptor file and a ink descriptor file? Seems like all

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Re: Boost K

2016-08-10 by richard@...

I couln t figure out how to embed an image in the post so I put it in the photos section, but that wasn t showing up either... So I just put it into a blog

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Re: Boost K

2016-08-10 by stefanchristiansen@...

Screen capture added in Stefan Christiansen album in case it doesn t show in the message...

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Boost K

2016-08-10 by stefanchristiansen@...

Hi all, I have questions regarding the BOOST K option. A forum search tells me about the last 10%, or the end of the slope , but I d like to know more

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Epson 9700 support?

2016-08-09 by richard@...

I love how my message shows up 4 hours after I initially posted it. Any chance of migrating to groups.io ? Especially after the Verizon purchase... RB

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-09 by forums@walkerblackwell.com

I think it important to “de-confuse” people about what gamma is. Gamma was created only as a compensation for tube screens that (by default) compressed

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Epson 9700 support?

2016-08-09 by forums@walkerblackwell.com

9700 works I believe. You just need to use the 9890 ppd/driver. The install command would be something like: Install9700-K7=9890.command best, Walker ... 9700

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Re: Epson 9700 support?

2016-08-09 by mccarvill@...

OK – thanks, folks. There’s a “low-mileage” one-owner Epson 7600 available that I might buy instead. OK – thanks, folks. There’s a

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RE: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-09 by Le Mois de la Photo à Uqbar

Richard I’m not going to labour this. I afraid that I began this post with a small question but spent far too much time trying to explain the context within

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Epson 9700 support?

2016-08-09 by Paul Roark

I briefly worked with Joe at Bowhaus to set up a doubled-up quad inkset in a Roland. The purpose was to do very fast printing of a large show that used

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Epson 9700 support?

2016-08-09 by richard@...

Roy, thanks for clearing that up. I was answering from the phone and couldn t really see specs for that printer or exactly was the install commands were

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Epson 9700 support?

2016-08-09 by Roy Harrington

The 7700 and 9700 are 4 ink printers. They double up on all 4 inks and print with the same heads as the x900 or x890 printers. My impression is that they are

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Re: Epson 9700 support?

2016-08-09 by richard@...

It looks like a non US model number for a 9890 or 9880 so I think you can copy the install script in the 9880 profiles folder and put Quad9700= in front of the

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Epson 9700 support?

2016-08-09 by mccarvill@...

I don t see the 7700 / 9700 listed on the official QTR support page, but I m wondering if anyone is using a 7700 / 9700 with QTR. I m trying to find a used

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Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-09 by richard@...

I ve been busy the last week and have just been watching this from afar and somewhat puzzled. Eugene, after these 40 some-odd posts I am still not sure what

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Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-09 by brian_downunda@...

My attempt to get smart and link just to the images didn t entirely work I gather, so here are the images as they appeared in the relevant IJM forum posts:

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Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-09 by brian_downunda@...

Like Roy, I hesitate to keep this going, but thought that it may help to see some charts of what I described earlier. Using EEM, I printed and measured the

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-08 by Roy Harrington

Eugene, When you say sending a wedge with L* patches, directly to the ABW driver via Photoshop , do you mean a target that you have specifically designed as

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-08 by Roy Harrington

Hi Sandy I m reluctant to keep this thread going but I think it worth pointing out a couple things. ABW has two issues that are important: 1) the obvious one

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Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-08 by info@...

I think I said ABW “dark mode” was as linear as one might expect. In my testing context I am sending a wedge with L* patches, directly to the ABW driver

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Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-07 by sanking@...

I *think* there was an earlier comment in this thread from Eugene to the effect that ABW wasn t that far from linear. That s not what I found when I ve

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New file uploaded to QuadtoneRIP

2016-08-07 by QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the QuadtoneRIP group. File :

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QTR AND EPSON P 10K and P20K

2016-08-06 by deanwork2003@...

Is anyone attempting to use QTR with the new Epson quad gray ink printers yet? And/Or is it going to be possible? John

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RE: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-03 by donsbryant@...

... @Eugene: If you are a Windows user why aren t you printing with QTRGui? Convert your files to gray gamma 2.2 and then print. If you are editing in PS in

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Re: Administered

2016-08-03 by donsbryant@...

Someone please remove these e-mails from pixelphoto and unsubscribe pixelphoto@att.net. I accidentally clicked on the link and got redirected to a phishing

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RE: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-02 by Le Mois de la Photo à Uqbar

Roy, we are almost on the same page. I edit in GG2.2 or Adobe 1998 using all 100 L*(or K=100 to K=100 as you wrote) with no consideration of output profile. I

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Linearize Quad droplet erratic behaviour

2016-08-02 by jeff.grant@...

I have been trying to linearise a Quad file. When I run the droplet, I get the OUT file but no Lin Quad. I have tried with a number of Quad files. Some work,

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-02 by Roy Harrington

Eugene, I think I get what you are saying -- see if this is what you mean. You have a printer/ink/paper combo that goes from L*16 to L*100. For editing you are

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Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-01 by brian_downunda@...

Paul, in trying to be brief (something I don t often achieve), I wrote that sentence in a way that is cryptic and confusing. A QTR user is unlikely to print

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Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-01 by Tracy Valleau

I ll toss this in as an aside, since a lot of people are not aware of it: On a Mac, there IS a built-in way to send a file directly to your printer, ala

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RE: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-01 by <info@...>

A QTR user may have created an ICC for ABW that they could use, but that s not typical, and not all QTR users would want to do that anyway. Brian, Could you

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Re: Concatenating ACV files (curves)

2016-08-01 by efo@...

I m pretty sure you didn t do anything wrong, it s surely a bug in my code that I didn t catch. Feel free to send me the curves you were using and I ll see if

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Re: QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-01 by brian_downunda@...

This secret conversion issue also applies to Windows. It s true that you don t have to select Printer Manages Colours on Windows to get access to ABW in the

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] QIDF versus ICC

2016-08-01 by John Labovitz

... Perhaps it s academic or far too technical at this point, but I have had luck on OS X sending image data to the QTR driver without the higher-level print

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Administered

2016-08-01 by pixelphoto@...

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