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

2003-02-05 by Roy Harrington <roy@harrington.com>

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis <stevek@e...>" <stevek@e...> wrote:

> > Hi Steve and anyone else interested in gimp-print,
> > 
> > This isn't Linux but it ought to work on any system using
> > cups and gimp-print.  It requires at least a little knowledge
> > of using a Unix shell to set it up otherwise its quite simple.
> > 
> > -----------------------------
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Thanks Roy I'll download it and check it out. I guess I'm 
assuming 
> that Gimp-print will work on any Unix-based platform, I hope 
that's 
> true.

It should work -- you'll need CUPS and Gimp-print.  You'll
also have to recompile my quadraster program.   The
pstoraster shell script will have to be compared to the one
you get on Linux -- I don't know how identical the different
implementation are.

Roy

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