Specifications

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QuadTone B&W RIP

The QuadTone RIP (www.quadtonerip.com) is also used with Epson K2/K3 Ultrachrome

printers to provide advanced ink controls for superior B&W printing. It is a software solu-

tion, rather than a colour managed (profile based) solution, or an inkset solution. As the

QuadTone RIP is not profile based, it doesn’t include a soft proofing function. This limits

its effective contribution to an efficient and productive B&W printing workflow.

Two layers are blended with the Opacity slider to

mimic the effect of blending the QuadTone RIP curves.

The adjusted curve is dragged onto the original image

before printing with these QuadTone RIP settings.

A QuadTone Editing and SoftProofing Action can be

made that provides a simple solution to this problem.

A profile for each QuadTone RIP curve is required. See

separate notes on profiling B&W printers for instruc-

tions on producing custom B&W profiles.

The Action duplicates the original image and applies one

of the QuadTone RIP colour profiles before layering

these images with an adjustment curve.

50% Cold Tone + 50% Warm Tone

Warm Tone Curve

Sepia Tone Curve

Selenium Tone Curve

Cold Tone Curve