Datacolor User to User Support Group.

> If anyone is interested I've put together a brief article on using the PF to produce 
> QuadToneRIP icc profiles for improving B/W printing
> http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/printfix_pro_for_bw.html
> Keith Cooper

Hi Keith,

Nice write up! Excellent!

I just wanted add that using Excel or a spread sheet program is not critical and the format 
is not too strict. A word or text program is fine.

In a recent exchange with Roy Harrington he suggested a tab-delimited file is all that is 
needed with a "LAB" heading to tell the QTR-Create-ICC 
DropScript it's working with a LAB file.

Here's Roy's reply regarding :

"any spacing if OK.  You can use spaces and/or tabs.
I think L* is ok, too.  It tries lots of heading names:    L   L*  LAB 
LAB_L   A   LAB_A"


The PrintFIX PRO beta can export LAB data via the Tools menu and writes a tab-delimited 
file with no headings...like this:


94.33    0.70    -2.93
90.50    0.82    -2.64
86.33    0.87    -2.32
82.04    0.83    -2.00
...

All that is needed is to add a heading like this manually:

L            A         B
94.33    0.70    -2.93
90.50    0.82    -2.64
86.33    0.87    -2.32
82.04    0.83    -2.00
...

Or like this:

L A B
94.33    0.70    -2.93
90.50    0.82    -2.64
86.33    0.87    -2.32
82.04    0.83    -2.00
...

After the heading is added and file saved drag the text file to the QTR-Create-ICC icon to 
build a .ICC profile for soft-proofing and printing.