QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hello, thanks for looking....
I recently purchased a refurbished 2200, the Cone Editions K7 inkset, and OTR. everything 
is loaded and working, but the curves included with the install give me the wierdest 
looking psudo solarized prints. Printing with QTR and no curve gives me a print that is 
overall too dark, but it's something that i could work with in photoshop. Could someone 
give me some suggestions on exactly what color space and profiles i should be using? 
Also, is there any way to make a curve for a Mac other than entering the data manually 
with Darwin? Thanks again...
Michael

I am using the identical set up, and getting beautiful prints from
this system. The suggestions you need are all in the instructions that
came with the carts from Inkjet Mall. I've used Cone's ICC system but
had to read the new directions very carefully because the new system
with QTR needs different settings.

  If you have just one or two settings wrong you can easily get the
weird results you mention. Check setting twice, then check them again.
There are multiple drop down boxes in the printer dialogs and you must
look at all of the ones mentioned in the set-up guide.

  Photoshop 7 and CS require different settings than CS2. Having a
printer other than the 2200 selected as the default printer can set
you up for disaster if you don't look at *each* important dialog in
the printer set-up.

I've set things wrong myself on ocassion and gotten wacko prints (some
are actually kind of interesting, though not what I was looking for).
the final line of defense is Inkjet Mall tech support.

Good luck
Mark Stracke


--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "sdoyle70" <mfophoto@n...> wrote:
> Hello, thanks for looking....
> I recently purchased a refurbished 2200, the Cone Editions K7
inkset, and OTR. everything 
> is loaded and working, but the curves included with the install give
me the wierdest 
> looking psudo solarized prints. Printing with QTR and no curve gives
me a print that is 
> overall too dark, but it's something that i could work with in
photoshop. Could someone 
> give me some suggestions on exactly what color space and profiles i
should be using? 
> Also, is there any way to make a curve for a Mac other than entering
the data manually 
> with Darwin? Thanks again...
> Michael

Hi Michael,

Since you're working with PS, it should be pretty simple to get  
things printing right. You can work in any working space you want,  
just as long as, right before you send the image to the printer, you  
make sure to convert (not assign) the profile to gamma 2.2 if that  
wasn't the working space you were in. Then, select print with  
preview. Here, depending on your version of PS, you should see  
something that allows you to select either, "same as source" or "no  
color management." These both turn off PS's color management, VERY  
IMPORTANT. Then hit print. This will bring up your driver dialog.  
Make sure that your quad printer is selected. Then pull up the quad  
tone rip options, select the curve you want and everything should  
print as expected. If not, make sure to run a nozzle check to make  
sure all your nozzles are firing. Other than that, I can't think of  
any other reasons, off the top of my head, as to why you'd be getting  
the "solarized" effect.

As for profile making, the easiest approach on a mac is to use  
textedit to modify the descriptor files (no, there isn't a gui). Once  
you get the hang of it, it's actually really easy. Make sure to have  
the QTR disk image mounted, double click it to open it. Then open up  
the "Profiles" & "CurveDesign" folders. In the profiles folder,  
locate your printer and open a curve descriptor file, that is either  
the one you want to edit or is similar to one you want to create.  
Modify it, and save it under a new name. Then locate the file and  
drag it into the "CurveDesign" window and drop it on the icon titled  
"Drop-Quad-Profile," and your done, since the script will do the rest  
for you (for a more detailed tutorial, go to the files folder for the  
QTR group and open the mini tutorial, it's written for mac users).  
With photoshop, I have to quit the program and restart in order for  
the new curve to show up in the options. If you have more questions,  
or problems, don't hesitate to ask for more help.

best regards,

Eric
www.ericashworth.net

On Sep 9, 2005, at 2:47 PM, sdoyle70 wrote:

> Hello, thanks for looking....
> I recently purchased a refurbished 2200, the Cone Editions K7  
> inkset, and OTR. everything
> is loaded and working, but the curves included with the install  
> give me the wierdest
> looking psudo solarized prints. Printing with QTR and no curve  
> gives me a print that is
> overall too dark, but it's something that i could work with in  
> photoshop. Could someone
> give me some suggestions on exactly what color space and profiles i  
> should be using?
> Also, is there any way to make a curve for a Mac other than  
> entering the data manually
> with Darwin? Thanks again...
> Michael