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Re: Lineariztion and Ink Partition Question

2005-10-16 by Olivier

Hi Mark,

The slider you want to move to 70% is actually the "Ink calibartion 
mode"  called INK. It's in the middle of the window and it goes from 
left to right. It's just above "ink limit adjustment shadows".

Olivier

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Stracke" 
<markastracke@y...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Olivier for your advice. I'm still sticking on a point or 
two.
> Reminder: I'm trying to linearize a piezotone inkset set on an 1160
> printer.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Olivier" <odesmais@y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Reprint with Ink limit (slider pushed a bit on the right in the 
main 
> > QTR window, see Tom's tuto for images)at the corresponding %tage. 
> 
>    
>    
>    I'm on a Mac so I don't have the QTR window. 
>    After finding the ink limit from the first printing I reprinted 
the
> inkseperation file and used the ink limit drop box in the final 
print
> dialog to set the limit. I wanted to set 70% as my ink limit so I
> chose -30 (lighter). There was virtually no difference in the
> resulting print. The inks leveled out at the same point. I have
> subsequently printed the file with -50(lighter) and +50(darker) and
> all the prints are pretty much the same. Clearly I'm getting 
something
> wrong here, any suggestions?
>    
>    set up: Inkseparation.tiff
>    Mac OS X 10.4
>    Photoshop 7
>    open file with no color management
>    source space-untagged rgb 
>    print space-same as source
>    mode: qtr calibration
>

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