Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Kinch" <pvx@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 2:05 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Gimp-Print for OS X info


> I posted earlier a query about Gimp-Print (an open-source Linux
> printer driver/RIP that is now able to run on OS X Jaguar). I was
> able to track down Robert Krawitz, who is part of the development
> group, with some specific questions that might be of interest to the
> list.
>
> Is this as interesting as I think it is? An open source downloadable
> RIP that runs on a Mac and allows individual control of each ink
> position, density and gamma, as well as a choice of dithers?
> Including a 16 bit pass through option? May be clunky at the moment,
> but the price is right, and he thinks what I want-quad black printing
> capability- is "quite interesting".

There is a good chance that it will get ICC colour management as well. CUPS
and the Argyll colour engine by Graeme Gill will make that possible. That's
a first for Linux (to be true, there's an expensive RIP on Linux that has it
already). Gimp-print is interesting and Robert Krawitz has a good knowledge
of printer drivers.

Ernst