QTR-Quadtone RIP

What do I need to do to print to QTR from Lightroom?

I am not in front of my QTR computer right now, but I looked last night and I didn't see any 
of the QTR profiles except the generic QTR-RGB profile in the profile picker under "Color 
Management"

I plan on messing around with it, but I thought maybe someone else had already blazed this 
trail.

James Haney

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "jhaneyzz" <jhaney@...> wrote:

> What do I need to do to print to QTR from Lightroom?

You can't print to QTR from Lightroom.  You could export an image from
LR which you could then print using QTR, but that's the only way to do it.

--John

Actually,

I got it to work last night.

Printing was pretty straightforward, except I could only pick the QTR  
RGB profiles so I couldn't quite get the images to come out right.

I wonder if there is any way to get the profiles to be compatible  
with Lightroom.

I don't know enough about ICC profiles to know what the differences are.

James



On Jan 30, 2007, at 9:43 PM, John Hollenberg wrote:

> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "jhaneyzz" <jhaney@...> wrote:
>
> > What do I need to do to print to QTR from Lightroom?
>
> You can't print to QTR from Lightroom. You could export an image from
> LR which you could then print using QTR, but that's the only way to  
> do it.
>
> --John
>
>
> 



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I asked about this problem with one of the earlier betas and was told  
by the developers that Lightroom doesn't understand grayscale.  It  
operates only in RGB space.  It will do beautiful gray conversions  
but the resulting files always remain as RGB.

On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:11 AM, James Haney wrote:

> Actually,
>
> I got it to work last night.
>
> Printing was pretty straightforward, except I could only pick the QTR
> RGB profiles so I couldn't quite get the images to come out right.
>
> I wonder if there is any way to get the profiles to be compatible
> with Lightroom.
>
> I don't know enough about ICC profiles to know what the differences  
> are.
>
> James
>
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2007, at 9:43 PM, John Hollenberg wrote:
>
>> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "jhaneyzz" <jhaney@...> wrote:
>>
>>> What do I need to do to print to QTR from Lightroom?
>>
>> You can't print to QTR from Lightroom. You could export an image from
>> LR which you could then print using QTR, but that's the only way to
>> do it.
>>
>> --John
>>
>>
>>

I still don't understand why that is a problem

QTR prints the same with zero saturation RGB files as it does with  
Greyscale in my experience.

James





On Jan 31, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Carl Schofield wrote:

> I asked about this problem with one of the earlier betas and was told
> by the developers that Lightroom doesn't understand grayscale. It
> operates only in RGB space. It will do beautiful gray conversions
> but the resulting files always remain as RGB.
>
> On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:11 AM, James Haney wrote:
>
> > Actually,
> >
> > I got it to work last night.
> >
> > Printing was pretty straightforward, except I could only pick the  
> QTR
> > RGB profiles so I couldn't quite get the images to come out right.
> >
> > I wonder if there is any way to get the profiles to be compatible
> > with Lightroom.
> >
> > I don't know enough about ICC profiles to know what the differences
> > are.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 30, 2007, at 9:43 PM, John Hollenberg wrote:
> >
> >> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "jhaneyzz" <jhaney@...> wrote:
> >>
> >>> What do I need to do to print to QTR from Lightroom?
> >>
> >> You can't print to QTR from Lightroom. You could export an image  
> from
> >> LR which you could then print using QTR, but that's the only way to
> >> do it.
> >>
> >> --John
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
> 



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I'm printing just fine to QTR from Lightroom.  I'm using a Mac and an R1800 with NK7 inks.  
The R1800 is set up for the NK7 profiles and shows up as just a regular printer to Lightroom, 
and all i do is select it, adjust the settings in the print dialog, and it prints.

I haven't printed from Windows in a long time, but I'm guessing you just need to export as a 
TIFF and print through the QTR GUI.

-Steve

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Veillette" <stephen@...> 
wrote:
>
> I haven't printed from Windows in a long time, but I'm guessing you 
just need to export as a 
> TIFF and print through the QTR GUI.

That's what I do.

Joost

The reason I am interested is that I would really like to be able to  
print out of Lightroom and use it's ability to crop within the  
program without cropping the image or having to make multiple  
versions of the image.


On Feb 1, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Joost Horsten wrote:

> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Veillette" <stephen@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I haven't printed from Windows in a long time, but I'm guessing you
> just need to export as a
> > TIFF and print through the QTR GUI.
>
> That's what I do.
>
> Joost
>
>
> 



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