Re: Is CUPS gone from macOS Sonoma 14.4?
I don¡¯t know how CUPS works, but on my M1 MacBook Air running macOS 14.4 there are several files in ¡°cups¡± folders dated late February 2024 and some dated today. So it¡¯s still functioning.
Myron
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On Mar 19, 2024, at 8:36?PM, Allan Greenier via groups.io <greenier.allan@...> wrote:
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I¡¯ve heard that CUPS is gone from macOS Sonoma 14.4.
Does this affect QTR? Is QTR future proofed against the eventual
disappearance of CUPS?
Allan Greenier
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Is CUPS gone from macOS Sonoma 14.4?
I¡¯ve heard that CUPS is gone from macOS Sonoma 14.4.
Does this affect QTR? Is QTR future proofed against the eventual
disappearance of CUPS?
Allan Greenier
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Agree with Clay and Gary. I upgraded my Mac Studio to Sonoma and like Gary lost most of the functions of my print drivers. I finally reverted back to Ventura, which has also been troublesome in printing. Thankfully I still have an old Mac Pro with Mojave that prints perfectly so I have shifted all of my printing back to it.
Sandy
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I upgraded to OS 14.x last November and can attest that the Apple/Epson relationship is strained if not broken. ?Immediately after upgrade, I lost most of the functionality of the print driver for my P600. ?Several hours with both Epson and Apple tech produced no positive results. ?I ended up purchasing a third party driver to avoid buying a new printer.
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On Mar 18, 2024, at 4:25?PM, Clay Harmon <w.clay.harmon@...> wrote:
?I just ran across this article on Ars Technica about the recent Mac OS 14.4 update breaking a bunch of things. As brittle as the Epson/Apple printer relationship seems to be, I would be wary of updating until some of these things get resolved:
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I just ran across this article on Ars Technica about the recent Mac OS 14.4 update breaking a bunch of things. As brittle as the Epson/Apple printer relationship seems to be, I would be wary of updating until some of these things get resolved:
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Re: Colorport utility soft. (X-rite)
I use Colorport on Mojave with an i1Pro 2.
No idea about ColorMunki...
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Re: Colorport utility soft. (X-rite)
Hi,
I run ColorMunki Photo (calibration) and the corresponding app Photo ColorPicker (for taking readings of test charts etc) on MacOS Mojave on an Oracle VM VirtualBox, from within MacOS Big Sur. No problems noted.
I recall from when I did a bit of research prior to setting up the virtual machine that Mojave was likely the newest OS that would run the software.?
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Re: Colorport utility soft. (X-rite)
High Sierra I know works with Colorport - No idea for ColorMunki, sorry.
Alan Bradford alan.bradford@...
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On 15 Mar 2024, at 17:54, fenollo, via groups.io <euroveto@...> wrote:
Hi
I planned to run Colorport and ColorMunki photo, to linearize some piezo pro .quad.
I use an old Mac book, and I have not found which macOS version use, that could run these 2 software.
An apple java SE is needed to run Colorport
Actually I use Mountain Lion, and if someone could tell me which macOS is convenient, it will be very helpful, at least to me.
Regards
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Re: Colorport utility soft. (X-rite)
You need 10.6 (snow leopard) or a subsequently java enabled 10.7 (Lion).?
best,
Jon Cone
Piezography
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Colorport utility soft. (X-rite)
Hi
I planned to run Colorport and ColorMunki photo, to linearize some piezo pro .quad.
I use an old Mac book, and I have not found which macOS version use, that could run these 2 software.
An apple java SE is needed to run Colorport
Actually I use Mountain Lion, and if someone could tell me which macOS is convenient, it will be very helpful, at least to me.
Regards
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Re: Editing the existing curve
It doens't really matter what you set the gray highlight to because it will just be corrected when you do the linearization. the gray highlight and gray shadow settings just get you closer so the linearization isn't as extreme, but in reality, those settings aren't super critical.
However, if you DID want to edit the gray highlight setting, you would delete the linearization= line because those measurements there are no longer valid since they came from a print WITH the HL setting. You would need to build the curve and do the linearization from that new base quad curve, enter the values and build the new linearized one. Or you could use my software for iterative linearizations...
RB?
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Re: Editing the existing curve
One of the primary reasons I built me QTP software was needing the ability to edit the quad files in ways the ink descriptor files wouldn't allow you to do. The Curve Editor tools I include in the QTP-Pro or Pro-DN apps let you reshape the whole curve to match a specific tonal range (or iterative linearization to fine tune your highlights) or individual ink channels like you would with a Photoshop curve.?
Hope that helps,?
Richard Boutwell?
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Re: New to QTR, paper profiles question
Correct, the QTP-K3 app has prebuilt curves for the different printers for a single matte and gloss paper that can be used as a starting point for other papers that you can fine tune in the QTP-K3 linearization tools.
The QTP-Pro app allows you to build curves from scratch from the ink separation images (along with the additional modules to work with measurement and/or quad files).
Hope that helps,?
Richard Boutwell?
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Re: Yes, another ICC profile in QTR question....
Thanks for this Roy. Too bad, though.
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Re: Yes, another ICC profile in QTR question....
Adobe stopped showing Gray ICCs in Photoshop and Lightroom many years ago. RGB ones are equivalent.
But standard soft-proofing in this context really doesn't show much useful info. In fact its really just the color tone -- i.e. heavy
sepia would be noticeable. (another reason for RGBs ICCs). But the color control is all in the driver so you will have
had to do all your blending sliders first and then make the ICC. So there's nothing you could do editing in LR or PS at this point.
Roy
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Re: Editing the existing curve
QTR curves are very linear in the whites/near whites ranges. It's mostly just LLK ink and a straight-line.
Graph the curves and I think you'll see this. So while you can steepen the LLK curve, I'd suspect you'd end up
damaging the rest more than you'd be helping your highlight blow outs.
My guess it that the image editing is the issue. Look at the histogram for it. If you have a lot of pixels at white or near white
this is what I mean. Pull them in a bit and you'll get more grays (hopefully you still have 16-bit data which can maintain separation).
The difficulty in edit at the white end is that screen white vs paper white can appear quite different. Maybe you need to
adjust the brightness to make the visual match better.
Roy
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On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 06:17 PM, <jokers05.auger@...> wrote:
I created this curve a year ago, and overall it looks good in blacks, shadows,
and midtones, but the highlights are a bit blown out. What is meant to be a
subtle gradient of light gray in the highlights appears almost white on paper.
Is there a way to make slight adjustments to the existing curve without doing
it all over again?
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Re: Yes, another ICC profile in QTR question....
Looks like I accidentally appended parts of Paul's name at the end of my last post. Sorry about that. The post was from me and no one else.
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problems printing with quad tone rip
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I bought Quad Tone Rip and started using it yesterday and have had a few problems. I couldn¡¯t get the profiles to show in Print Tool. I de-installed and then reinstalled the software and this solved the problem. I have double checked that I'm using all the latest softwareversions
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But now when I print I just get an enlarged section of the print "mashed up" as per the examples below. I have doubled checked all image size and paper size settings and even when printed through photoshop using Quad 700 the same thing happens.
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I have also attached a couple of screen shots showing my settings in Print Tool.
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You advice would be most appreciated. Using Mac OS X Catalina and Epson SP7000 printer
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Many Thanks?
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Steve McCoy
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McCoy Wyynne
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Re: New to QTR, paper profiles question
Hi Richard. am I correct that QTP-K3 does not allow for the creation of custom curves while QTP-Pro does this and more?
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Re: Editing the existing curve
I'm not an expert for sure, but have you tried tinkering with GRAY_HIGHLIGHT? If you don't have the key in your ink descriptor file it defaults at 4. Maybe try 0 and see if that goes in the right direction...or any value lower than what you set it at.
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