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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Print-Tool Question

2017-02-19 by Roy Harrington

Ian,

You've stepped into a quagmire of how to use color management with QTR.

You got to always look at the complete workflow so pulling out one selection

can be a problem.

Either way can work and really either way can produce the same print --

IF yes IF AND ONLY IF you do everything one consistent way.

The second way works because people edit with soft proofing (Preserve Values) on.

Effectively they just do the convert to QTR-Gray-Matte-Paper during editing.

Then no more CM is needed at print time.

The first way just does it on the fly like most printing workflows.

(the difficulty is that PCs don't have that workflow option so (2) is chosen

much of the time and does work on Macs)

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I thought the two images you displayed were telling.

In the first the image in Print-Tool looks pretty much how I'd expect I'd

want the image to look. But in the second image it looks too dark on the

screen. What you are seeing is it displayed as if it were GG2.2 when in

fact its really Gray-Matte. It'll lighten up in the print.

Roy

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On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 1:56 AM, ian@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Ii an evaluating the Print-Tool but the clock on the demo version is ticking now with only a few days to go before it expires.

Black and White Print Question:

I am reading the Help file and I notice that in the example provided under Color Management, Print Tool is selected and QTR Gray Matte Paper is selected.

Is this because on this particular setup- it is been used to soft proof ?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18940456/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-19%20at%2009.46.01.jpg

But looking on a youtube video from I believe Jon Cone, under Color management, he has it set to No Color Management

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18940456/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-19%20at%2009.45.23.jpg

Am I correct in thinking that No Color Management is the correct choice

Roy Harrington
roy@...
www.harrington.com

Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Print-Tool Question

2017-02-19 by ian@...

Thanks Roy

I still need to get my head round your explanation so I fully understand it.

In the meantime, is it safe to say I can choose

Print Tool Managed

QTR_Gray_Matte_Paper

No Soft-Proof

and then select my chosen Curve from the QTR options when I press Run Print

QTR-Quadtone RIP

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