Re: [QuadtoneRIP] QTR Linearizing of Quad files -- K7 Piezo and regular curves
2015-06-11 by joel
Thanks Roy! Joel ... joelconison.com
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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QTR Linearizing of Quad files -- K7 Piezo and regular curves
2015-06-11 by Roy Harrington
Here it is again: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7muk0k0nrhgla7p/QTR-Linearize-Quad.app.zip?dl=0 On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 6:43 AM, joel jcon77@comcast.net
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QTR Linearizing of Quad files -- K7 Piezo and regular curves
2015-06-11 by joel
Roy, If you would please post the link to your drop box I would appreciate it. Thanks so much Joel ... joelconison.com
Re: QTR Linearizing of Quad files -- K7 Piezo and regular curves
2015-06-11 by jeff.grant@...
Got it, thanks. Drop both together.
Re: QTR Linearizing of Quad files -- K7 Piezo and regular curves
2015-06-11 by jeff.grant@...
Without wishing to sound like a dummy, I downloaded the droplet, dropped a Quad and TXT file and nothing happened. Is there an order for the Quad and TXT
Re: QTR Linearizing of Quad files -- K7 Piezo and regular curves
2015-06-10 by brian_downunda@...
As one of the people who has been pushing this issue and experimenting, I d like to say a very big thank you to Roy. It would have been useful to have this a
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QTR Linearizing of Quad files -- K7 Piezo and regular curves
2015-06-10 by Roy Harrington
It s exactly the same functionality as QTR linearize. It s not strictly 1 L value step minimum. But that s probably about the idea. The points are joined
Re: QTR Linearizing of Quad files -- K7 Piezo and regular curves
2015-06-10 by richard@...
Its funny that this comes out the same day I announced my QuadLin service... I just tried this new script Roy posted with a set of curves I know to work with
QTR Linearizing of Quad files -- K7 Piezo and regular curves
2015-06-09 by Roy Harrington
There seems to be a fair amount of interest in re-linearizing existing .quad curves. So looked into it and created a new droplet program QTR-Linearize-Quad
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Part of image missing on 3880
2015-06-09 by frank hunter
Roy I m unable to make a screen shot of the set up in QTR or make an attachment here. I have put a comparison print on my drop box page:
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: New to Linearize Piezo K7 inks with Eye One 2 X-Rite software
2015-06-09 by richard@...
There isn’t some kind of secret or overly-complicated math (ok, it is some complicated math) that needs to happen to relinearize a quad file, but it is a lot
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Part of image missing on 3880
2015-06-08 by Roy Harrington
Frank, I guess I m not sure I completely understand the symptoms. It does not sounds like my other scenarios. Send me screen captures of the paper size, print
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Part of image missing on 3880
2015-06-08 by frank hunter
Roy If I changed the paper size to 15 from 16 wide on my 3880 would I avoid the flag you are speaking about. Is there a sequence that can correct the
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-07 by Paul Roark
I changed the 3880 setup to be a variable tone, with an all-Canon (blue and cyan) toner (75% clear base) in the Y position. Also, due to the dip in the ABW
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-07 by Roy Harrington
Well, yes, dithering is different on different drivers. But Epson color vs Epson ABW is unlikely to be different. I expect just ink usage differences. The
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-07 by ernst.dinkla@...
Roy, There is no difference in the way the dots are laid down? Different print engines though if I am not mistaken, QTR based on the Gimp-print routines versus
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by Roy Harrington
I don t see mention of the print resolution that is being used but I d guess 2880 since that s the best usually. Anyway on a 3880 printer at 2880dpi (really
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by David Kachel
I think it s definitely the case the ABW is firing all colors - to make the OEM inkset smoother, I assume. It is a different way of doing that compared to the
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by Paul Roark
David, I think it s definitely the case the ABW is firing all colors - to make the OEM inkset smoother, I assume. It is a different way of doing that compared
Agitation
2015-06-06 by kellyhealy@...
FWIW I have been using an old electric tooth brush head to make a slow passes over the side of the cart after agitating by hand. Kelly
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by kellyhealy@...
FWIW I pass an old sonic electric tooth brush plastic head slowly over the side of the carts after agitating sideways and up and down. Kelly
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by Myron Gochnauer
Thanks. I’ve attached your response to the end of the PDF, awaiting a new, expanded edition! 😊 Myron On Jun 6, 2015, at 12:05 PM,
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by David Kachel
I am curious what ABW is doing to achieve the superior performance. I may have a clue. Remember a few months back, I told you about an odd occurrence when
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by Paul Roark
Myron, With the Eboni v.1.1, I ve been agitating every 2 weeks. I think that is the same that Jon recommends for Peizo inks. In centrifuge tests the Eboni v.
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by Paul Roark
Ernst, I ve done a bit more experimenting with the Epson driver on the 3880. Note that it s the ABW mode that is doing something different from the usual
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by Myron Gochnauer
(draft PDF at http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/3880-Eboni-6.pdf) Paul, It would be helpful if you included in the PDF a short discussion of how to keep the
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] 3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-06 by Ernst Dinkla
Paul, Reading this and your other recent thread it may be interesting to retry Qimage Ultimate again as the application to print from. The QTR ICC (RGB
3880 ABW with carbon inkset -- smoother, sharper, deeper dmax, "color managed" on Win7
2015-06-05 by roark.paul@...
This setup is giving me more surprises. Who would have thought the Advanced B&W printing mode would make the best print? Smoothness of a test strip might be
QTR Toning
2015-06-05 by ReD Ognita
Hi guys, Quick question. I am familiar with the split toning function of QTR, but what if you have a specific tone you re aiming for? I have a specific tone
Re: Profiling a K8 monotone B&W inkset
2015-06-05 by brian_downunda@...
You are referring to microbanding in the first and last inch? If so then I don t know. I find that it varies from image to image, or at least it appears to
Re: Part of image missing on 3880
2015-06-05 by boyhowdy54@...
Thats right it prints the full 36 inches but crops into the image at the bottom (of a horizontal image) about a third. My thought was that the driver for the
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Profiling a K8 monotone B&W inkset
2015-06-04 by asharpe@...
It also begs the question that, if the mechanism for printing at the leading and trailing edges are handled by QTR for the lower end printers, then why, when
Re: Part of image missing on 3880
2015-06-04 by roger@...
When you say bottom do you mean that it prints the full length but not the full width of the paper? In other words does it print 10 x 36 or 16 x 24 ?
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Profiling a K8 monotone B&W inkset
2015-06-04 by brian_downunda@...
I thought that this brief post by Roy dealt with the issue of the microbanding rather succinctly:
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Profiling a K8 monotone B&W inkset
2015-06-04 by richard@...
There are two different kinds of banding that are being discussed here. 1: With the small format 1.5 pl printers the first and last 1 or the page are unsuable
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Profiling a K8 monotone B&W inkset
2015-06-04 by asharpe@...
So, out of all the folks who say they don t see microbanding on these printers, are any of them using black-only workflow (single ink)? That is where the
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Part of image missing on 3880
2015-06-04 by Roy Harrington
I m not sure you both are having the same issue. There are a couple things that I know of that can happen. There s an issue to too large a paper size for the
Re: Profiling a K8 monotone B&W inkset
2015-06-04 by sanking@...
I have never seen micro-banding at the top and bottom of the page with QTR and either the Epson 3800 or 3880, or with any of the wide format professional
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Profiling a K8 monotone B&W inkset
2015-06-03 by Paul Roark
I have not seen microbanding on the 3880. The 1400 family is where I see the most. I don t use Piezo, but the comments seem to indicate that users have less
Re: Profiling a K8 monotone B&W inkset
2015-06-03 by brian_downunda@...
I don t have a 3880, but my understanding from those that do is that you don t get the microbanding in the first and last inch on the 3880. I ve seen 3880
Re: Photoshop CC now allows "no color management"?
2015-06-03 by brian_downunda@...
That was my understanding too, although I ve not used every possible Windows version of PS. ... I was under the impression that printing straight thru was
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Epson 3880 - Front feed less print quality
2015-06-03 by Michael Birkmose
I carried on experimenting and after realising that with epson premium luster on my backing board solution printed through the front feed I got a tack sharp
Re: Part of image missing on 3880
2015-06-03 by phototeachok@...
I have a similar problem, I ve4 printed several panoramas from 30 to 60 inches long by 16 wide and the last attempt to print one 28 wide resulted in a 7.x by
Part of image missing on 3880
2015-06-03 by frank hunter
I am using carbon inks and QTR in windows on my 3880. I am printing some panoramas that are on paper 16x36 using the sheet feed on the printer. Some of
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Photoshop CC now allows "no color management"?
2015-06-03 by Paul Roark
When I first started to use PS CC, it would not let me use no color adjustment in the driver and printer manages color in the PS Print screen. So, I had
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Profiling a K8 monotone B&W inkset
2015-06-03 by Paul Roark
Not a problem, Richard. I only had that one set graphed. For the 3880 I m going to be stressing and profiling mostly inkjet papers, not watercolor papers.
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Photoshop CC now allows "no color management"?
2015-06-03 by tracy@...
I was under the impression that printing straight thru was always possible in the Windows environment, and not possible with recent PS/OSX setups. For Macs
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Epson 3880 - Front feed less print quality
2015-06-03 by Gbakr
I consistently use the front feed on my 3880 for printing digital negs for carbon transfer. I use a .040 inch white polystyrene sheet as a backer board. This
Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Epson 3880 - Front feed less print quality
2015-06-03 by Michael Birkmose
YEs had the same issues with read feet with pizza wheels - same paper path right? Its on the exit that the pizza wheels appears. Have always had pizza wheels
Re: Epson 3880 - Front feed less print quality
2015-06-03 by richard@...
I had the same thought as Roy, and was going to suggest that you use a slightly larger 2-ply board than the paper you are printing on. If you align the right