QTR-Quadtone RIP

Roy and all,

  I'm sure that this has been gone over but I must ask again. Is an 
Eye-one necessary to make profiles with the Ultracrome, K3, K4 ink 
sets. I know I can do the profiles where only the black and Gray inks 
are involved with my densitometer, but the toned profiles have me 
worried. Has anyone seen the the Colorvision PrintfixPRO suite. Is 
this a possible contender? I'd also like to know if a UV or non UV 
spectrometer is necessary?

Thanks,
JH


http://www.colorvision.com/products_printfixpro.shtml

P.S. I thought I read that the old Eye-One does not work properly with 
the latest OSX. Is that correst?
JH

A densitometer is all that is needed to make Curves. You can also use your
densitometer to make corresponding ICC profiles (for WYSIWIG in photoshop,
for example), but these profiles will only softproof the luminosity. If you
have a spectro, I believe you can construct ICC profiles that can softproof
the toning as well. I don't have a spectro and thus haven't done that
myself.

Tom Moore

> -----Original Message-----
> From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Mr_Misty_44
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:06 AM
> To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] Is the Eye-one Necessary?
> 
> Roy and all,
> 
>   I'm sure that this has been gone over but I must ask again. Is an
> Eye-one necessary to make profiles with the Ultracrome, K3, K4 ink
> sets. I know I can do the profiles where only the black and Gray inks
> are involved with my densitometer, but the toned profiles have me
> worried. Has anyone seen the the Colorvision PrintfixPRO suite. Is
> this a possible contender? I'd also like to know if a UV or non UV
> spectrometer is necessary?
>

Hi JH:

I am currently involved in the end stages of beta testing the 
Colorvision Printfix PRO, and am pleased to report that it looks like 
a solid package, yielding high quality ICC print profiles.  The 
spectrocolorimeter utilized is a very good design.  I have not 
directly compared it to an Eye-one, and would be delighted if 
somebody did just that.  It is scheduled for release in January.  My 
review of it will be on Steve's Digicams, and possibly Reichman's 
Luminous Landscape.

Jack Winberg



At 12:16 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote:

>Subject: Is the Eye-one Necessary?
>
>Roy and all,
>
>   I'm sure that this has been gone over but I must ask again. Is an
>Eye-one necessary to make profiles with the Ultracrome, K3, K4 ink
>sets. I know I can do the profiles where only the black and Gray inks
>are involved with my densitometer, but the toned profiles have me
>worried. Has anyone seen the the Colorvision PrintfixPRO suite. Is
>this a possible contender? I'd also like to know if a UV or non UV
>spectrometer is necessary?
>
>Thanks,
>JH

On Thursday 22 December 2005 1:34 pm, Jack Winberg wrote:
> I am currently involved in the end stages of beta testing the 
> Colorvision Printfix PRO, and am pleased to report that it looks like 
> a solid package, yielding high quality ICC print profiles.  The 
> spectrocolorimeter utilized is a very good design.

Can you put a bug in their ear about the lack of open-source
drivers for instruments like this?  Most of these devices
don't work on Linux, even though there is some Linux software
that could take advantage of them.

If the specs were available, I'd volunteer to write a driver.