QTR and NK7 ink profiles
2006-01-30 by jefferyball
Hello, Thanks in advance for any insight you can give! I have a new NK7 inkset with trial Hahnemule papers. The photorag print has nice deep shadow gradations, but the mid-tones are not at all accurate. Nozzle check is good and I am using the latest QTR 2.3.5. I went into the profiles and there is only one profile in either the "profile" folder or the "quadtone" folder with inkset information and that is in the "profile" folder for "hahnemule photo rag." I see no other curve profiles for any other paper. I assume I selected the "hahnemule photo rag" from the Quadtone folder with QTR GUI as I selected the 2200 NK7 modeling for printing. After the print, I realized I needed to check to see what the linearization curve looks like. The files are there with descriptions, but there seems to be no data for them. Am I interpreting this correctly that there may be profile names but no real data and linearization curves? My second question is this: I have quadruple checked the loading of the cartridges and I am a little confused on the QTR Ink pattern Page print. Ink 1 is black and is the darkest row. Ink 2-3 look like they proceed to get lighter, but ink 4-yellow-is extemely light with light black nearly as dark as the ink 2-cyan. Should the ink pattern print page have subtle gradations from Ink 1-black to ink 8- light black? Thanks for any help on these two issues. Jeff Ball