Franco Laeri
Wie ich es sehe - The Way I See



Epson SC-P800 - ABW driver settings

I beg your pardon: At this place the table with ABW-settings and ICC-profiles for some papers should appear. Personally I think that posting parallel versions of a table listing the same elements is a bad idea. Unfortunately my Content Management System has no tool for linking tables. So I refer to the German version of this paragraph.

The table on the German Downloads page links data for the following papers:

  •  Hahnemühle Photo Rag Duo 276
  • Hahnemühle Photo Rag Book & Album 220
  • Hahnemühle Matt Fibre Duo 210
  • Ilford Galerie Premium Matt Duo 200 (also valid for: Ilford Galerie Premium Heavyweight Duo Matt, Tecco PD190 DUO Matt, Tecco PD305 DUO Matt)
  • Hahnemühle Baryta FB 350
  • Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl 285
  • Staples Photo Basic Matt 190 (also valid for: Photo Premium Matt 270)
  • Staples Brochure And Flyer 170 double sided
  • Mediajet Photo Art White Matt Duo 230

The .jpg and the .png graphic files can be viewed e.g. with the program IrfanView. To install an ICC profile in Win10/11: Right click on the file, select "Install Profile" or copy it manually to the directory \C:Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color\;  restart Photoshop if necessary.

 

Epson SC-P800 - QuadToneRIP-Settings

Again, I beg your pardon: At this place the table with QTR-profiles for some papers should appear. I still think that posting parallel versions of a table listing the same elements is a bad idea, and because my Content Management System has no tool for linking tables, I refer to the German version of this paragraph.

The table on the German Downloads page links -.qidf- and -.quad-data for the following papers:

  •  Hahnemühle Photo Rag Duo 276, black only and neutral
  • Hahnemühle Photo Rag Book & Album 220, black only and neutral
  • Ilford Galerie Premium Matt Duo 200, black only and neutral  (also valid for: Ilford Galerie Premium Heavyweight Duo Matt, Tecco PD190 DUO Matt, Tecco PD305 DUO Matt)
  • Hahnemühle Baryta FB 350, black only and neutral
  • Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl 285, black only and neutral

Adjustment sets with 2 ink tones are listed: Black Only (=warm tone) and Neutral (=neutral tone), with a linear gamma curve , as well as a gamma curve forced to go through the 50-50 point.
The settings files .qidf, respectively .quad should be copied to the hidden directories:
      C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\QuadToneRIP\Profiles\P800-uc\
resp.
     C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\QuadToneRIP\QuadTone\QuadP800
This is in order to avoid deleting the self-created settings files when updating the QTR software.
Note: The .qidf and .quad files are plain text files. The .png graphic files can be viewed e.g. with the program IrfanView.


Update history

2021/01/25 - v2-ABW settings for Ilford Galerie Premium Matt Duo 200:
This paper - as well as the apparently identically coated Ilford Galerie Premium Heavyweight Duo Matt, Tecco PD190 DUO Matt, and Tecco PD305 DUO Matt papers - have a strongly brightened base, as represented by the strongly negative D50-b coordinate b=-8. Papers that contain this much brightening agent are difficult to trim to a neutral gray tone. Color inks need to be applied very densely to compensate the brightener. The v2-version increases the horizontal component by one unit in the ABW driver. The previously somewhat greenish midtones thus transition a bit more harmoniously into the warm-toned tones of the full black application. The QTR driver allows a more targeted intervention in the ink tone, so that with these papers somewhat more harmonious gray gradients can be achieved.

2022/08/03 - ABW settings for Mediajet PhotoArt White Matt Duo 230
added to the German Download table table.