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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
QuadToneRIP
Vendor: Roy Harrington
Purpose: A RIP for black and white inkjet printing TIFF format, using inks with four tones
instead of four colors
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QuadToneRIP gives black and white specialists complete control over printing.
Description
Roy Harrington’s QuadToneRIP provides “color management” for black and white
inkjet printing in TIFF format, using quadtone inksets (four tones instead of four colors).
Developed by a skilled black and white landscape photographer who shoots in large
format, it produces outstanding results and is highly regarded by experts. It works with
several kinds of Epson inkjet printers and with both standard and custom dedicated
black and white inksets.
Profiles already exist for many printer/ink combinations, but you can create a new
profile for an inkset using a densitometer or spectrophotometer. The software includes
facilities for making full black and white ICC profiles for printing and soft-proofing
within Photoshop and other editors. QuadToneRIP requires “a fair amount of memory,”
according to the developer. Good documentation, tutorials, and a user group are
available.