QTR-Quadtone RIP

It looks like GretagMacBeth has at least three different 
colorimeters/spectrophotometers.  They have an "Eye-One colorimeter" 
that comes with the "Display 2" package (about $250) and 
the "accelerated Eye-One Pro spectrophotometer" that comes with 
the "Design" package, about $1000.  Then there is the "Eye-One Pro 
with UV cutoff filter.  The Eye-One Pro (without UV filter) cannot be 
upgraded to a Eye-One Pro with UV filter.
  
Which of these three instruments does the ICC profile generator work 
with?  Can instruments from other manufacturers be used with QTR's 
profile software?  Specifically, can the Sequel 4CL be used with QTR?

Thanks!

The Display version is not sufficient.  All the other Eye-One packages 
are OK
and in fact are the same -- its just the software that is different 
which you
won't use for QTR anyway.

I don't know the Sequel product.  You just need to be able to read 
patches
on paper and get either density or Lab readings.  The Eye-One is 
probably
the best integrated though.

Roy


On Monday, March 20, 2006, at 06:32  PM, Bob Marsolais wrote:

> It looks like GretagMacBeth has at least three different
> colorimeters/spectrophotometers.  They have an "Eye-One colorimeter"
> that comes with the "Display 2" package (about $250) and
> the "accelerated Eye-One Pro spectrophotometer" that comes with
> the "Design" package, about $1000.  Then there is the "Eye-One Pro
> with UV cutoff filter.  The Eye-One Pro (without UV filter) cannot be
> upgraded to a Eye-One Pro with UV filter.
>
> Which of these three instruments does the ICC profile generator work
> with?  Can instruments from other manufacturers be used with QTR's
> profile software?  Specifically, can the Sequel 4CL be used with QTR?
>
> Thanks!
>
-
Roy Harrington
roy@...
Black & White Photo Gallery
http://www.harrington.com

Roy,

Thanks for the quick response.

If one has a reasonably good flat bed scanner, is there any 
significant advantage to using a spectrophotometer (ie, spending the 
money to get one) over Paul Roark's flatbed scanner method?

By the way, this weekend I finally had a chance to experiment with 
QTR.  I downloaded the Migrant Mother and Mississippi General Store 
circa 1936 images from the Library of Congress and printed them on 
EEM using the 1280 and UT2 inkset.  I used a 50/50 mix of neutral 
and carbon settings.  The results are absolutely amazing!  It's the 
best $50.00 I've spent on software in a long time.

Bob Marsolais
  
--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Roy Harrington <roy@...> wrote:
>
> The Display version is not sufficient.  All the other Eye-One 
packages 
> are OK
> and in fact are the same -- its just the software that is 
different 
> which you
> won't use for QTR anyway.
> 
> I don't know the Sequel product.  You just need to be able to read 
> patches
> on paper and get either density or Lab readings.  The Eye-One is 
> probably
> the best integrated though.
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
> On Monday, March 20, 2006, at 06:32  PM, Bob Marsolais wrote:
> 
> > It looks like GretagMacBeth has at least three different
> > colorimeters/spectrophotometers.  They have an "Eye-One 
colorimeter"
> > that comes with the "Display 2" package (about $250) and
> > the "accelerated Eye-One Pro spectrophotometer" that comes with
> > the "Design" package, about $1000.  Then there is the "Eye-One 
Pro
> > with UV cutoff filter.  The Eye-One Pro (without UV filter) 
cannot be
> > upgraded to a Eye-One Pro with UV filter.
> >
> > Which of these three instruments does the ICC profile generator 
work
> > with?  Can instruments from other manufacturers be used with 
QTR's
> > profile software?  Specifically, can the Sequel 4CL be used with 
QTR?

> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> -
> Roy Harrington
> roy@...
> Black & White Photo Gallery
> http://www.harrington.com
>

Hi,

I tried QTR quite a while ago and got frustrated with trying to get it  
working. Now I just downloaded the most recent version and am going to  
give it another try. My problem is that up until now, all my photo editing  
work has been on my Win98SE computer. That is where my scanner, printer  
(Epson 2200), and software all reside. I have loaded QTR on another  
computer that is running Win2000. When I tried this before, there was a  
place to tell the software that it should print to a network printer. My  
2200 is set to share as QUAD2200 on the Win98 machine but the new QTRgui  
doesn't find it when it starts up. With the old QTR software, I did manage  
to get it to print over the network but I was having a lot of trouble with  
it printing just parts of the image in various places on the paper. The  
images looked great as far as tone but I could never get a complete image  
on a sheet. I gave up. I have been using the Epson Gray Balancer program  
and that has made by B&W prints on the 2200 come out pretty nice. I am  
hoping that with the QTR they can be even better. So, how can I get QTR to  
recognize my 2200 on the network?

Thanks,
Steve Taylor

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