Setting up P900 for Direct to Plate methods using QTR
Another PSA. I have wrestled with helping people set up their P900s for DTP use over the last couple of years. I think I have finally figured out a pretty solid workflow for getting this done. It has
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Clay Harmon
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#19445
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Re: P800 - Only Black Inks Laying Down
Why do you think it is only laying down black inks? Do the negs look different from before? The color inks in the profile are minuscule and only there to make sure some ink is going down all the lines
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Alan Vlach
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#19444
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Re: P800 - Only Black Inks Laying Down
Update: Thank you for all the suggestions. I've nuked, reinstalled, and checked permissions. All seems right to me.
Alan, here is one of the quad files. This is a case of it worked fine before the
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DM Witman
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#19443
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Re: P800 - Only Black Inks Laying Down
Attach the quad file please.
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Alan Vlach
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#19442
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Re: P800 - Only Black Inks Laying Down
I agree that permissions is a likely suspect.
By far the easiest and best way to repair permissions is to simply
re-run the Install-QTR package. This automatically corrects all the
permissions in
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Roy Harrington
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#19441
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Re: P800 - Only Black Inks Laying Down
FWIW, when I run into stuff like this, I nuke (delete) all the .quad files for a particular printer in /Library/Printers/QTR/Quadtone and then do some spring cleaning in my installation folder to get
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Clay Harmon
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#19440
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Re: P800 - Only Black Inks Laying Down
Did you check EVERY SINGLE folder in this order for read/write?
/Library
Printers
QTR
Quadtone
quadP800-QTP or whatever you call it.
Every single one.
Last time I updated I had to read write every
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Christina Z. Anderson
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#19439
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Re: P800 - Only Black Inks Laying Down
Hi Chris,
That was a glimmer of hope, as that is something I would have overlooked for sure. But, all the quads are "write & read".
Anything else? Uninstall again?
~DM
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DM Witman
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#19438
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Re: P800 - Only Black Inks Laying Down
Are you at work now? Do me a favor and right click on the quad you were using and see if it reverted to read only. That happened to me, and the result was very dense black ink negatives as if
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Christina Z. Anderson
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#19437
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P800 - Only Black Inks Laying Down
Hello,
Hoping for some insight/suggestions. This is in a school lab setting. Working with Print Tool and a P800 on a Mac Mini M1. IT forced another update, now to Sequioia 15.3.1. This resulted in
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DM Witman
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#19436
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Re: Revisiting Carbon 6/7/8 in 2024
When I bought this 7880 for $100, it had been in storage for around a decade. Ink in the lines had evaporated. Still had the original OEM cartridges from 2010 in it. Original owner had run about 250
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Jeff Kew
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#19435
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Re: Revisiting Carbon 6/7/8 in 2024
thanks Paul, that's actually remaining availability, I just replaced it. You'll see it's going down,. 24, 23, 22
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Jeff Kew
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#19434
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Re: Revisiting Carbon 6/7/8 in 2024
Your printer may not be able to clean itself because your Maintenance Take
is full.
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Paul
www.PaulRoark.com
[email protected]> wrote:
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Paul Roark
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#19433
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Re: Revisiting Carbon 6/7/8 in 2024
Spoke too soon. gave it another chance of cleaning solution on paper towel and laying it flat under the print head while moving the print head, and another liberal spray of cleaning solution over the
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Jeff Kew
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#19432
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Re: Revisiting Carbon 6/7/8 in 2024
Well, at this point, I've cleaned and checked everything. I'm suspecting that that area in the print head may not be usable. All is not lost. I still have 7 channels and can use this machine to print
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Jeff Kew
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#19431
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Re: Revisiting Carbon 6/7/8 in 2024
Good advice Don, I’ll try that next. Thank you for the link.
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Jeff Kew
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Re: Revisiting Carbon 6/7/8 in 2024
Jeff
When I have seen this on Epson 3880, P800, P900, P5300, its usually not the lines nor the damper. Its usually dried crud ink that is floating around the capping station and the bottom of the
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Don Nelson
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#19429
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Re: Revisiting Carbon 6/7/8 in 2024
update. I have ink flowing through the magenta line that was giving me problems, but I'm not able to get a proper nozzle check. I also ran a Magenta Flush image file and it was successfully printing
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Jeff Kew
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#19428
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Re: Revisiting Carbon 6/7/8 in 2024
... working through getting that line to clear on the print head now. Slow going, but getting there.
However, I have all the carts filled as per @Paul Roark's glossy variable setting. Will start
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Jeff Kew
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#19427
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Re: Offtopic: Question on QuadToneProfiler_QuickCurve-DN ver 3+ by Richard Boutwell
Here is a copy and paste from the v3 instructions from my support
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Richard Boutwell
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#19425
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