QTR-Quadtone RIP

I am using a Mac G5 and Epson Stylus R2400 inkjet printer.  I have been printing all of my 
black & white work via the QTR RIP.  When I print color I use various paper profiles.  
Everything had been going quite well until I loaded Apple's latest operating system OS X 
v10.5 Leopard. I wish I had not done so before doing some research.  (please bare with me as 
my question is coming) 
  After loading the new Mac system I tried doing some prints and found that the final print 
dialog box was much different than the previous version and that my color prints came out 
looking awful. I then found out that Epson had a new download for Leopard compatibility 
issues so I installed that.  Things were looking better as the last print dialog box looked more 
familiar.  When I decided to hit the final print button for producing the same color image 
(NOT using the QTR RIP) a warning window appeared saying: "no QuadToneRIP curves 
specified.  Print quality is not assured."  I had not even chosen the QTR RIP.  I cannot seem to 
disable it.  The print again comes out looking awful.  How can I remedy this?  Any help would 
be greatly appreciated as I am a professional photographer and this is making life kind of 
difficult. 

Thanks in advance!

You're printing color with QTR?
   
  Tom Baker
  

plb713 <plb713@...> wrote:
          I am using a Mac G5 and Epson Stylus R2400 inkjet printer. I have been printing all of my 
black & white work via the QTR RIP. When I print color I use various paper profiles. 
Everything had been going quite well until I loaded Apple's latest operating system OS X 
v10.5 Leopard. I wish I had not done so before doing some research. (please bare with me as 
my question is coming) 
After loading the new Mac system I tried doing some prints and found that the final print 
dialog box was much different than the previous version and that my color prints came out 
looking awful. I then found out that Epson had a new download for Leopard compatibility 
issues so I installed that. Things were looking better as the last print dialog box looked more 
familiar. When I decided to hit the final print button for producing the same color image 
(NOT using the QTR RIP) a warning window appeared saying: "no QuadToneRIP curves 
specified. Print quality is not assured." I had not even chosen the QTR RIP. I cannot seem to 
disable it. The print again comes out looking awful. How can I remedy this? Any help would 
be greatly appreciated as I am a professional photographer and this is making life kind of 
difficult. 

Thanks in advance!



                         


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It sounds, from your description, that the QTR printer has become your default printer.
In the first printer dialog box there is a place to choose the printer you want to use. Make 
sure that your color print driver (Epson or whatever) is selected there. Then follow your 
normal printing process, remember to select either the printer or Photoshop as the color 
management source, and then make appropriate selections in the second print dialog.

David

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "dmwket" <dmw@...> wrote:
>
> It sounds, from your description, that the QTR printer has become your default printer.
> In the first printer dialog box there is a place to choose the printer you want to use. Make 
> sure that your color print driver (Epson or whatever) is selected there. Then follow your 
> normal printing process, remember to select either the printer or Photoshop as the color 
> management source, and then make appropriate selections in the second print dialog.
> 
> David
>
David,

Thanks for your reply.  I had already done all that you said.  The amazing thing is that I have 
printed this way so many times before and this never happened.  I even went as far as 
deleting anything related to the QTR RIP just to be safe and yet that same warning box 
continues to come up.
  Anybody else out there have any suggestions?

this too may be something you have already done, but, there is a Leopard batch that needs 
to be added to QTR.

Just making sure that everything is brought forward.

Presuming that is loaded, then it sounds like somewhere along the line, your color settings 
and profiles have gotten hosed.

At least that is where I would concentrate my diagnostics.

David