QTR-Quadtone RIP

I'm thinking of upgrading my OS to Snow Leopard or 10.6. I am currently printing QTR to an Epson 4000 with Mac OS 10.5.8 and getting good results. Will QTR print to the Epson 4000 using Mac OS 10.6?   Thanks, Doug

DO NOT UPGRADE TO 10.6

Quadtone will work with the patch

Your Epson drivers will not
Your prints will come out too dark and green
My Epson re-seller says Epson are not going to fix this on the 4000

EPSON SUCKS!

Jom

Regarding Snow Leopard, I asked the same question of Roy a few weeks ago, offline, concerning the R2880.  

Roy said that QTRIP would print just fine using QTR curves in Snow Leopard, so long as (1) you start out with a file that already has been converted to gray gamma 2.2, and (2) in the Photoshop CS4 print dialog you set Color Handling to "Photoshop Manages Colors," and (3) in the CS4 print dialog you set the Printer Profile to "Gray Gamma 2.2".

As far as I can tell, it works the way Roy said. But he didn't say anything one way or the other about the 4000 or the Epson drivers.


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "taylorda13" <dougtaylor13@...> wrote:

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> I'm thinking of upgrading my OS to Snow Leopard or 10.6. I am currently printing QTR to an Epson 4000 with Mac OS 10.5.8 and getting good results. Will QTR print to the Epson 4000 using Mac OS 10.6?   Thanks, Doug
>

>set the Printer Profile to "Gray Gamma"

actually  it doesn't matter what the printer profile is - I leave mine on Enhanced Matte as they are all the same

 I am getting lovely Quadtone prints but

all the variables are in the Quadtone RIP box - I get a nice print with

60 % UC EnhMatte Cool
40 % UC EnhMatte Warm

Gamma +5
Ink Limits -3

MacPro, OSX 10.6, Epson 4000 , Enhanced Matte  , Quadtone Rip 2.6.2 + patch

I print my colour prints from a G5 running 10.5.something because as I said last post, Epson 4000 driver prints HORRIBLE GREEN from 10.6

I suspect you're right, that it really doesn't matter what the printer profile is.  My exchange with Roy only related to using Gray Gamma 2.2 as the printer profile, and he said that QTRIP 2.6.2 would print just fine using QTR curves in Snow Leopard with the CS4 Printer Profile to "Gray Gamma 2.2".  He did not indicate that other printer profiles wouldn't work as well.  

I raised the issue with Roy because the QTRIP 2.6.2 Release Notes say that Mac users need to print in Leopard using CS3 instead of CS4 until some color management issue is resolved, and nobody has ever been able to tell me whether or not the issue has been fixed.  I finally got tired of running two versions of Photoshop at the same time, so I asked Roy how to make QTRIP work in Snow Leopard printing through CS4, and that's where the response I related in my posting came from.  But Roy did not indicate that other printer profiles wouldn't work as well.


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "jomfoto" <jom@...> wrote:

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> >set the Printer Profile to "Gray Gamma"
> 
> actually  it doesn't matter what the printer profile is - I leave mine on Enhanced Matte as they are all the same
> 
>  I am getting lovely Quadtone prints but
> 
> all the variables are in the Quadtone RIP box - I get a nice print with
> 
> 60 % UC EnhMatte Cool
> 40 % UC EnhMatte Warm
> 
> Gamma +5
> Ink Limits -3
> 
> MacPro, OSX 10.6, Epson 4000 , Enhanced Matte  , Quadtone Rip 2.6.2 + patch
> 
> I print my colour prints from a G5 running 10.5.something because as I said last post, Epson 4000 driver prints HORRIBLE GREEN from 10.6
>

I called Epson recently and was told there will be a driver for the 4000 in the spring. The are working backwards from their newest machines to the older ones. I hope he was correct.

Alan





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From: jomfoto <jom@...>
To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 3:03:10 PM
Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: QTR & Snow Leopard

  
DO NOT UPGRADE TO 10.6

Quadtone will work with the patch

Your Epson drivers will not
Your prints will come out too dark and green
My Epson re-seller says Epson are not going to fix this on the 4000

EPSON SUCKS!

Jom


 

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