Digital BW, The Print

The QTR installer should have installed several text files.

Specifically you are looking for "GettingStarted.rtf" and 
"Calibration.rtfd"

Read both of these files AT LEAST THREE TIMES. Trust me on this one!

If you proceed with a half clear notion of how to do this you will 
spend hours of frustration to no good end.

Read the documents while you have a sample curve file open.

Compare the provided curve files to each other. They are often very 
different based upon a number of variables. You will eventually begin 
to get the concept.

So read the files carefully then come back here and ask questions to 
fill in the blanks. There will definitely be a few questions. The key 
barrier to making this a quick and simple process is that everyone is 
using different inks and papers and is trying to achieve different 
results.

It is doable, and works great when you are done, but it makes you feel 
like you are back in high school science class.

Good luck.

James Haney



On Jan 2, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Fred Drury wrote:

>
> Jack ...
>
> I have posted a couple of similar questions recently and have not 
> received
> any response.  Not sure if my posts are going out properly ... could 
> you
> please give me a reply so as to confirm!
>
> I too would like to do some of my own curves, most especially for 
> semigloss
> and glossy papers, but have no idea where to start!
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred Drury
> Markland Imaging
>
> ------Original Message-----
> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 01:57:07 -0000
>    From: "jwinberg1" <jack.winberg@...>
> Subject: Making my own curves in QTR
>
>
> Hi Gang:
>
> Having finally gotten QTR basically functioning well with my 2200
> (thanks to Roy and Stephen), I would now like to play with generating
> my own curves.  I tried looking up descriptions of this process on
> both of the above gentlemen's websites, but could not locate such a
> description.  I may well have overlooked it.
>
> Would some kind soul point me in the right direction?
>
> Am I also correct in assuming that if I decided to utilize a third
> party inkset (MIS UC perhaps), then I would need such custom curves to
> achieve results tweaked to my image preferences.
>
> Thanks much in advance for any references.......... Jack Winberg
>
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