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qtr print tool and Z3100

2015-01-17 by deanwork2003@...

Is the QTR Print Tool working with the HPZ printers for linearization.


Is anyone doing that out there?


john




Re: qtr print tool and Z3100

2015-01-17 by richard@...

Do you mean as a way to print the calibration/linearization targets without color management?

If I understand the Mac CUPS printing system Print Tool will print will work with any installed printer. Does HP have their own built in measuring/profiling software or are you using something like x-rite or sypder print to measure and profile?

Richard Boutwell

Re: qtr print tool and Z3100

2015-01-17 by deanwork2003@...

Hi Richard,

It does have it's own built in spectro and it's own target for linerization that I've used for years. But I would like to print my own linearization target and measure manually with my I1 Pro2 spectro.

I read on the page when I bought Print Tool that it supports HP printers.

I don't really need it for my Canon because I have the TBW Bowhaus software that allows me to do the same thing.

John


Re: [QuadtoneRIP] qtr print tool and Z3100

2015-01-18 by Roy Harrington

Print-Tool uses standard printer drivers some of it depends on driver options.
Roy
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On Sunday, January 18, 2015, deanwork2003@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Hi Richard,

It does have it's own built in spectro and it's own target for linerization that I've used for years. But I would like to print my own linearization target and measure manually with my I1 Pro2 spectro.

I read on the page when I bought Print Tool that it supports HP printers.

I don't really need it for my Canon because I have the TBW Bowhaus software that allows me to do the same thing.

John






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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: qtr print tool and Z3100

2015-01-18 by Ernst Dinkla

John,

You could make a greyscale target for Color Center, print from that application and have it measured with the Z's spectrometer and save the measurement data for QTR linearisation. Of course measurement can be done manually with a separate spectrometer too.

I experimented with an 85 patches target, 5x 17 greyscale patches, to get data for adjusting the Qimage curves. That was not very practical due to the horrible curves tool in Qimage.

Right now I am thinking of another approach that is more a low gamut ICC profiling, addressing the total of small Lab shifts in greyscale printing.


Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

Dinkla Grafische Techniek
Quad, piëzografie, giclée
www.pigment-print.com
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:57 PM, deanwork2003@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi Richard,


It does have it's own built in spectro and it's own target for linerization that I've used for years. But I would like to print my own linearization target and measure manually with my I1 Pro2 spectro.

I read on the page when I bought Print Tool that it supports HP printers.

I don't really need it for my Canon because I have the TBW Bowhaus software that allows me to do the same thing.

John



Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: qtr print tool and Z3100

2015-01-18 by deanwork2003@...

You mean like using the X-Rite extended gray patch target with lots of patches, read them manually, and make an rgb icc profile and avoid doing a separate linearization?


john

Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: qtr print tool and Z3100

2015-01-18 by Ernst Dinkla

Yes, more or less that way.




Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

Dinkla Grafische Techniek
Quad, piëzografie, giclée
www.pigment-print.com
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 4:16 PM, deanwork2003@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

You mean like using the X-Rite extended gray patch target with lots of patches, read them manually, and make an rgb icc profile and avoid doing a separate linearization?



john


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