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Re: Gimp-Print + Linux = B&W Heaven?

2003-02-04 by Charles Bandes <byronbulb@yahoo.com>

I've got Roy's system up and running on my mac. It is pretty neat.

My curves are still pretty screwed up for my 1280/VM ink combination,
but I'm sure with some tuning it would work really well.

Of course, I'm completely clueless about curve development, so it
might be a LOT of trial and error (mostly error) before I actually get
anywhere, we'll see.

> I finally got around to investigating some of my ideas about 
> quadtone 
> printing with gimp-print OS X.  I think I come up with just about 
> the 
> easiest solution that works with very little effort.  You get 
> complete 
> control of the four CMYK inks and have no extra workflow.
> 
> I've packaged it all up with a ReadMe that explains the details.
> 
> Download:
> http://www.harrington.com/QuadGimp.tar.gz
> 
> Hope I've explained in well enough.  The Curves need work but I 
> figured
> most people would have different printers and different inks.
> 
> Roy Harrington
> www.harrington.com

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