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UT3D ink + QTR instructions

2007-01-01 by gochatunbdotca

Does anyone have a from-the-ground-up set of instructions for using MIS Associates' 
UT3D inks on an Epson 2200 with the PrintFix Pro profiling system?

I find this sort of thing much more difficult to sort out than darkroom work... it's so 
disconnected from tangible, physical objects and processes that I have trouble keeping all 
the bits and pieces of information in my working memory. 

Paul Roark's descriptions of UT3D inks assume a level of understanding that I do not have 
at present, and he's such a determined experimenter that he's moved on to new projects 
before I've figured out what he was doing last year...

Assume I want to create profiles for an Epson 2200 loaded with UT3D inks in the standard 
positions.

Assume that I will be printing monochrome images, starting out with Gamma 2.2 
embedded profiles (or something else, if it would help).

I can run a paper through the PrintFix Pro workflow, printing, reading and creating a 
profile from the 225 patch target.  (I do this successfully for color profiles.) Is there any 
advantage to including the extended gray target as well?

Now what? I assume that I do not need anying further to "linearize" the profile. ??? 

Step by step, how do I go about creating profiles or Photoshop curves that will change only 
the color or tone of the image?  My first attempt at a PrintFix Pro B&W profile resulted in a 
very cool image tone, and I would like to warm it up.

Thanks.

Myron

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