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Advice: What Curve To Use

2016-03-14 by ian@...

If there is no preinstalled curve for a particular paper which you have, do you have to get a curve made by someone or is there a standard curve for Matte and

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Re: Poor quality on A3

2016-03-13 by brian_downunda@...

Digital Rights Management. I believe he is referring to the fact that for the new P800 and the new large format Epson printers, the chip fabricators so far

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Re: Poor quality on A3

2016-03-13 by paulmwhiting@...

Jacques, Any way you could send a photo of how and where that 1 blue Styrofoam strip goes? Dropbox maybe, or in the files section of this group? Thank you!

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Re: Poor quality on A3

2016-03-13 by brian_downunda@...

Just to be clear, my comment If the R1430 is that low-grade, then why has IJM put so much effort into developing the forthcoming Piezo digital negative system

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Re: I/O Error 32 in Win 8.1

2016-03-13 by TerryGls@...

I had the same issue with Win 10 and R1800. Suggestion on right clicking on profile in Main Menu to show curve works fine. Great program! ... Hi Greg, thanks a

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TIF image now showing

2016-03-13 by Larry Beach

I have saved my image as an 8-bit, greyscale, non-compressed TIFF. I am using Photoshop Elements. Some of my TIFF s are now showing in the preview pane of

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Re: ICC profiles

2016-03-13 by pnh@...

Thanks, Brian. I use a Mac and the mentioned icc profiles are not in any of the QuadToneRIP folders. Regards, Peter

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Ink limit low limit

2016-03-13 by jp432r@...

Intriguing idea. A few questions though. 1) What is the procedure for taking out the pizza wheels? 2) How will removing the pizza wheels effect other things I

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Poor quality on A3

2016-03-13 by forums@walkerblackwell.com

Micro-banding (micro-micro banding? heh) exists in the 1430 with super tight-dot papers/films (glossy, Pictorico, etc). I’ve seen way less (to no) micro

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Poor quality on A3

2016-03-13 by Larry Beach

Any chance on a similar CISS for the R2000? R2000: better paper handling, Refurbs are just $50 more than a new 1430 refurbed R2000 may be newer than refurbed

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Poor quality on A3

2016-03-13 by Jacques Caron

Hi Walker I m with you all the way! I ve been printing on a 1430 for more than a year now. Aside from some air in the lines when I refill (a 24 hrs sitting

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Poor quality on A3

2016-03-13 by forums@walkerblackwell.com

A few reasons for doing the 1430. 1. Because it’s actually a really very high-quality K6 head after the first inch and before the last. It’s dither pattern

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TROUBLES WITH MEASURE TOOL

2016-03-13 by luca.mugellesi@...

Good Morning to everyone, I am having problems with using the MEASURE TOOL with my x-rite Eye-One ISis. When I select the QTR-21x4-random.txt file it appears

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Re: ICC profiles

2016-03-13 by brian_downunda@...

On my (Win) system, they re in the QuadToneRIP/icc program folder, long with the .rtf. I assume that they were installed there. You sure that they re not

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Re: Poor quality on A3

2016-03-13 by brian_downunda@...

If the R1430 is that low-grade, then why has IJM put so much effort into developing the forthcoming Piezo digital negative system for it?

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Re: Curve not loading into Curve Setup

2016-03-13 by paulmwhiting@...

You re welcome, Steve, After I posted that, wasn t sure it was that helpful... but whatever, you re up and running! I m happy it s now working for you! Best,

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Poor quality on A3

2016-03-12 by jeff.grant@...

Nowhere near as pesky as keeping ink flowing in the lines in the bigger ones. Microbanding is not always obvious, sedimentation in ink lines is.

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Poor quality on A3

2016-03-12 by forums@walkerblackwell.com

I stand corrected and really didn’t think that through outside of the really cheepo printers. The R2880 (for example) uses the DX5 head so . . . You’re

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Re: Curve not loading into Curve Setup

2016-03-12 by wsteve464@...

Thanks Paul I don t know why but I went out for an hour or so, without shutting the computer down or reloading QTR and when I came back I tried again and the

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Re: Poor quality on A3

2016-03-12 by brian_downunda@...

I disagree with Walker that it s caused by low-quality print heads. This has been explained here previously by Roy Harrington. See this blog post for a

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Poor quality on A3

2016-03-12 by tattobe@...

Thank you Walker. I thought something was wrong because this does not happen when I print from Photoshop. Only with QuadtoneRIP. And I also didn t have it with

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Poor quality on A3

2016-03-12 by forums@walkerblackwell.com

This happens with most small-format printers at 2880 dpi (the R1430 etc). It’s a function of the low-quality printheads. Best bet is to simply use larger

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Re: Curve not loading into Curve Setup

2016-03-12 by paulmwhiting@...

Steve, I m not sure this will help, but a similar discussion is going on over in the DigitalBlackandWhitethePrint group. It s possible your curve is here:

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Poor quality on A3

2016-03-12 by tattobe@...

Hello, When I print on A3 (saying this because it does not happen on A4) the first and the last 1,5cm (1/2 inch) are visibly of poorer quality than the rest of

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Curve not loading into Curve Setup

2016-03-11 by wsteve464@...

Hello and thanks for any help I am using a PC win 7 QTR version 2.7.5.0. I am able to create the curve and it saves to the hard drive but the new curve does

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ICC profiles

2016-03-11 by henriksen, peter

The statement Here are three new ICC profiles--gray-lab.icc gray-matte.icc and gray-photo.icc appears in the first line of the gray-readme.rtf document

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Ink limit low limit

2016-03-11 by forums@walkerblackwell.com

I recommend simply taking the pizza wheels out. (teeth out, no dentures) They are only needed on the last few inches of the neg for keeping the paper from

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Re: Ink limit low limit

2016-03-11 by jp432r@...

I m replying to and will quote something Sandy wrote that concerns the problem I m having, but anyone who has any ideas please chime in. To quote Sandy -

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Re: C6C base on inkjet papers

2016-03-09 by janbecket.net@...

Richard, the curve correction tool did the trick - the curve is not quite a straight line, but not far off. I ended up re-printing the 21k-step patches,

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Re: C6C base on inkjet papers

2016-03-09 by janbecket.net@...

Thanks very much for the suggestions, Richard. Iʻm working through them now and will let you know if I can manage to wring a decent print out of the profile.

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Re: C6C base on inkjet papers

2016-03-09 by janbecket.net@...

Hi Paul. Iʻm using a Mac running OSX 10.10.5 and the printer is a 4880. The set of inks is based on a dilution you mentioned in another message here relating

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Re: C6C base on inkjet papers

2016-03-08 by richard@...

It sounds like you are changing too many things but not really knowing where to start. One of the reasons you might be having problems is that by changing the

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C6C base on inkjet papers

2016-03-08 by janbecket.net@...

When MIS shifted the Eboni 6 formulation, I decided to also shift my base from C6B to C6C. This is the base formulated by Paul Rorark primarily for use on

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Re: Trouble shooting

2016-03-06 by richard@...

Can you post the densities from the 21-step target you measured for doing the linearization step? And then include the measurements after linearizing? Also,

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Re: Trouble shooting

2016-03-05 by patrick.t@...

Hey Paul, I applied the curve and it did take me maybe half the way there. Do you think I have to just experiment with that curve until I get something

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Re: Trouble shooting

2016-03-05 by patrick.t@...

Yes, I m pretty sure the printer was fine when I purchased it. I saw a recent pattern check and it all looked good. I work on a Mac (OS El Capitan 10.11) and

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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Trouble shooting

2016-03-05 by Paul Roark

For Windows, see pages 10 - 11 of http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/7800-Carbon-Variable-Tone-2015.pdf . Note the difference in the curve for QTR v. Gray Gamma

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