2014-11-14 by richard@...
Sandy, I tried using i1 profiler to measure the ink separation files for evenly slicing up the dmin-dmax for setting the ink limit for each different shade and
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2014-11-14 by richard@...
I have been messing a lot with the finer points of the .txt file creation process for the last few days perfecting the process of making 6-grey ink profiles to
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2014-11-14 by sanking@...
Richard, Thanks in advance for the refined profile creation workflow you are writing. I plan to ride the Measure Tool and OS 10.6.8 into the future as long as
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2014-11-13 by richard@...
I finally got around to getting the reference chart updated and figuring out what I was doing wrong. The problem I was having earlier in the week was related
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2014-11-11 by Steve Taylor
Hi Mike, I was one of those people involved with testing of your original spreadsheet and I am anxiously awaiting the return of this method. I am available for
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2014-11-11 by sanking@...
Roy s suggestion to create a custom grayscale ICC built on top of the existing Cone .quad file makes a lot of sense to me. Back engineering the Cone .quad
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2014-11-11 by richard@...
Mike, Thanks for your detailed explanation. That is essentially what I though the answer had to be, I just couldn t figure out how to go about doing it (my own
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2014-11-11 by Roy Harrington
For those on Mac s instead of trying to re-linearize K7 .quad files which is hard to do, go the ICC route. Just create a custom grayscale ICC built on top of
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2014-11-11 by Michael King
Richard, ... So I was having the same thoughts about 6 years ago and knew there must be a way to do this because Jon Cone provides this as a service. After
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2014-11-10 by richard@...
Tyler, I agree completely. I was talking to a friend about the legality of selling external hard drives that just happens to have a bootable version osx snow
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2014-11-10 by tyler@...
Richard, if you have the time I think it would be great for you to post the i1profiler approach to linearization in detail. We re quickly running out of
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2014-11-10 by Elliot Puritz
It must be exceedingly difficult to create a QTR book ( sic ) that is both technical AND accessible Bill. Reading the comments here suggests that there are
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2014-11-10 by bill@...
Has the new user manual been lost at sea? I ve had decent but not great luck building profiles for PtPd printing (and much better luck with straight BW inkjet
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2014-11-10 by richard@...
I literally wake up in the middle of the night thinking about this exact subject, and from all that I understand about this, you can not re linearize the
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2014-11-10 by jeff.grant@...
Thanks Richard. I ve just ordered a copy of the book. I need all the help that I can get at the moment. I will build a profile for IGFS and use it as a
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2014-11-09 by Richard Smallfield
On the 3800, I have obtained good results using the Silver Rag curves for IGFS and a custom profile made with a Spyder Print, which I recommend as an
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2014-11-09 by amog19@...
Hi Richard, thanks for your input. You pointed me to some important aspects of QTR linearization. I believe your sketched value array represents the grey curve
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2014-11-09 by jeff.grant@...
Many thanks, Richard. I always build colour profiles for the papers that I use. Now I understand that it is just the same with QTR. Having used ColorBurst RIP
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2014-11-09 by deanwork2003@...
I need to print out the 21-x4 random target and linearize it for a 9890 using K6 Piezo inks. I can t find anywhere in my Eye One Pro 2 software to import this
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2014-11-09 by Elliot Puritz
Same thoughts here. Sometimes it is hard to see the test pattern. Elliot From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Sunday,
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2014-11-09 by Harry Lockwood
I¹m using piezography K7 inks for B&W-only on my R3000, so I can speak only to part of your post. In the pz mode, the yellow channel is the lightest. When I
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2014-11-09 by amog19@...
Hi Everybody, I have a situation with my R3000 not printing low black dilutions - at least this is what it looks like. As described in my earlier posts I want
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2014-11-08 by richard@...
Eposn ABW — there are a lot of words that start with A, but advanced is not one I would use. As for Shewe and lulu: I tend to judge the quality of people s
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2014-11-08 by tyler@...
then you are in good company... Hope your QTR work goes well.
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2014-11-07 by jeff.grant@...
Thanks Tyler. That s just like Colorburst was. I was just hoping someone had one that I could use as a starting point. I guess that I should be linearising for
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2014-11-07 by tyler@...
I don t have a 3880 so no direct experience with that exact issue, but I looked in the 3880 profile install folder and do not see a IGFS curve set to install.
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2014-11-07 by roark.paul@...
Has anyone had any experience using the “Adobe color print utility” (ACPU) to print Create ICC-RGB targets? This would be for the Windows platform. The
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2014-11-06 by jeff.grant@...
I ll take that as a no .
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2014-11-05 by jeff.grant@...
I ve hunted in the files but can t find anything for IGFS and a 3880. IGFS is mentioned in a number of posts. Is there somewhere else that I should be looking
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2014-11-04 by jeff.grant@...
Thanks Richard. I d like to hear how you go with Profiler. Using it would be my preference over Colorport. It s a pity that so much of Profiler remains a
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2014-11-04 by jeff.grant@...
Thanks Tyler. Scott s site looks like exactly what I am after. Fortunately, I still have an i1Pro sitting around so that won t be an issue.
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2014-11-04 by jeff.grant@...
Thanks Sandy. I understand that . It s what will work on newer systems that I am after,
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2014-11-04 by richard@...
I would go with ColorPort rather than i1 Profiler. I have been messing around with the newer i1 Profiler linearization and measurement functions for a little
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2014-11-04 by tyler@...
I left measure tool behind some time ago in favor of color port. Mostly because Scott Martin provided charts and reference files for it.
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2014-11-04 by sanking@...
The Measure Tool is part of a software program called ProfileMaker 5. There is a folder called Eye-One in the QTR download package that explains the use of the
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2014-11-04 by richard@...
the addition of the color pigments increases density of the gray curve so you will need linearize each of the neutral/cool/selenium tinted curves. The
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2014-11-04 by jeff.grant@...
I am just starting out with QTR. I just went to look at profile making and found that the doco talks about Measure Tool. Is that what people are using still,
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2014-11-03 by mi_carballo@...
Thank you very much for your reply, Stefan. After trying almost everything, I discovered by accident that it is perfectly usable only having installed both
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2014-11-03 by dkosiur@...
I m in the process of making a series of QTR curves for a paper. I ve linearized the data for neutral tint, following Diallo s instructions. One thing I m
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2014-11-02 by yg_1@...
Whilst a dual boot solution may suit some, I find that being able to keep apps open on one system, whilst firing up something on another saves a lot of hassle
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2014-11-02 by Lutsky, Berel
Long time color munki user for both monitor calibration and custom color profiling - for the money and the device support - it works really well -
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2014-11-01 by sanking@...
One of the reasons I kept my main Mac at 10.6.8 for so long was the useful stuff that broke with later OS versions. It is possible to partition the hard
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2014-11-01 by richard@...
I tried responding to this yesterday, but sometimes these replies don t show up at all. I really wish yahoo wasn t such a yahoo company. If my first response
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2014-11-01 by richard@...
I didn t clarify my comment as well as I should have with the color munki software. It might print the 21-step chart on a half sheet of paper just fine, but
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2014-11-01 by 8jstewart@...
I ve been using the Colormunki for years and it works fine. -Test prints too large?? -- just tell the printer dialogue to print 2 pages/ sheet and it
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2014-11-01 by yg_1@...
One of the reasons I kept my main Mac at 10.6.8 for so long was the useful stuff that broke with later OS versions. Earlier this year I finally went to 10.9,
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2014-10-31 by amog19@...
Hi All, as mentioned, I have started to make experience with QTR and progressing with experiments. I want to better understand how the Curve Creator /
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2014-10-31 by richard@...
I know people are using the ColorMunki to read the 21-step ramps, but I think it uses too much paper based on the size of the sample area. The software is
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2014-10-28 by stefanchristiansen@...
Hi, This will not answer your question, but maybe help in a way. Printers may have different names in different countries, but work with the same driver (?).
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2014-10-25 by Paul Roark
I think criteria I d look for is LAB text output that can easily be cut and pasted into Excel and graphed, and then cut and pasted into QTR without any work.
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