QTR-Quadtone RIP

I was excited to try out the split tone features in the new version.
I'm running os x 10.4.2 on a ppc, with an epson 1280 and UT2 inks. 

The sliders started at all 0's. When I tried to get, say, highlights
to be 100% curve 1, 0% curves 2 and 3, I could not set that: I got
100% curve 1 and -100% curve 2 or -100 curve 3. It seems that it's
trying to get the sum of the three curves to 0. Or something. So I
left them at {100,-100,0} (and similarly for the midtones and
shadows...) and my print was just wet with ink - completely black, and
running off the page. Clearly this wasn't right.

I eventually saved out this setup as a preset and edited the
custompresets.plist file, setting the -100's to 0's. Doing this, I
could print out fine. And what's more, I could adjust this initial
setup to get any combination I wanted. It seems that once it started
with the sum of the three sliders at 100%, any adjustments I made kept
this same constraint.

This sounds like I've got a solution. Have other people experienced
this, and am I missing something? And does anyone familiar with this
sense that this "fix" is in fact a proper one?

Thanks, and thanks to Roy for this wonderful thing.

I too am getting strange behavior with the sliders.

Basically, I just drag one of the sliders to the far right and that  
seems to set all of the values properly, then drag it into the  
position I want.

Another thing I noticed is that saving preset in the driver doesn't  
save properly. I have to drag the sliders to the correct settings for  
every print.

Apparently you have done this by editing the preset in a text editor?  
I didn't know you could do this. I will have to try that.

James Haney


On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:10 PM, ebenostby wrote:

> I was excited to try out the split tone features in the new version.
> I'm running os x 10.4.2 on a ppc, with an epson 1280 and UT2 inks.
>
> The sliders started at all 0's. When I tried to get, say, highlights
> to be 100% curve 1, 0% curves 2 and 3, I could not set that: I got
> 100% curve 1 and -100% curve 2 or -100 curve 3. It seems that it's
> trying to get the sum of the three curves to 0. Or something. So I
> left them at {100,-100,0} (and similarly for the midtones and
> shadows...) and my print was just wet with ink - completely black, and
> running off the page. Clearly this wasn't right.
>
> I eventually saved out this setup as a preset and edited the
> custompresets.plist file, setting the -100's to 0's. Doing this, I
> could print out fine. And what's more, I could adjust this initial
> setup to get any combination I wanted. It seems that once it started
> with the sum of the three sliders at 100%, any adjustments I made kept
> this same constraint.
>
> This sounds like I've got a solution. Have other people experienced
> this, and am I missing something? And does anyone familiar with this
> sense that this "fix" is in fact a proper one?
>
> Thanks, and thanks to Roy for this wonderful thing.
>
>
> 



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All of the sudden this is working fine for me.

The preset remembers the settings now. Strange.


On Apr 10, 2007, at 11:05 AM, James Haney wrote:

>
> I too am getting strange behavior with the sliders.
>
> Basically, I just drag one of the sliders to the far right and that
> seems to set all of the values properly, then drag it into the
> position I want.
>
> Another thing I noticed is that saving preset in the driver doesn't
> save properly. I have to drag the sliders to the correct settings for
> every print.
>
> Apparently you have done this by editing the preset in a text editor?
> I didn't know you could do this. I will have to try that.
>
> James Haney
>
> On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:10 PM, ebenostby wrote:
>
> > I was excited to try out the split tone features in the new version.
> > I'm running os x 10.4.2 on a ppc, with an epson 1280 and UT2 inks.
> >
> > The sliders started at all 0's. When I tried to get, say, highlights
> > to be 100% curve 1, 0% curves 2 and 3, I could not set that: I got
> > 100% curve 1 and -100% curve 2 or -100 curve 3. It seems that it's
> > trying to get the sum of the three curves to 0. Or something. So I
> > left them at {100,-100,0} (and similarly for the midtones and
> > shadows...) and my print was just wet with ink - completely  
> black, and
> > running off the page. Clearly this wasn't right.
> >
> > I eventually saved out this setup as a preset and edited the
> > custompresets.plist file, setting the -100's to 0's. Doing this, I
> > could print out fine. And what's more, I could adjust this initial
> > setup to get any combination I wanted. It seems that once it started
> > with the sum of the three sliders at 100%, any adjustments I made  
> kept
> > this same constraint.
> >
> > This sounds like I've got a solution. Have other people experienced
> > this, and am I missing something? And does anyone familiar with this
> > sense that this "fix" is in fact a proper one?
> >
> > Thanks, and thanks to Roy for this wonderful thing.
> >
> >
> >
>
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>
>
> 



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