Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> Roy,
> 
> If there is a free (or even fairly cheap) RIP that works on PC and 
does a
> good job on the 7500, I'm all ears.  That's exactly what I want.
> 
> I have not followed the Gimp-print thread enough to know if that 
approach is
> viable yet on a PC for a non-programmer.  Once it is and someone 
can explain
> it to me well enough to get running, I would move in that 
direction.
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com


Yeah me too! I just spent most of last night and half of today 
installing and trying to understand Linux, but I can see that I have 
a lot to learn to implement your gimp-print solution. So if any of 
the folks working on it in Linux would translate it to English at 
some future date, it would be very much appreciated!

Steve K
> ________________________________________
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Roy Harrington <roy@h...> [mailto:roy@h...]
>   Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:05 PM
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Epson 7500 what inks should I use?
> 
> 
>   --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul
>   Roark" <paul.roark@v...> wrote:
>   > I just loaded my first attempt at a B&W inkset for my 7500 last
>   night.  It's
>   > not final yet, but I'm working on the issue.  The vm curves are
>   done only
>   > for the 7000 and PC.  I'm working on a new approach.  Here
>   are a few of my
>   > thoughts.
>   >
>   > Sören Lindqvist wrote:
>   > >...
>   > > With an 7500 dedicated for BW inkset, what kind of
>   > >inkset should I use?
>   > >...
>   >
>   > Steve K. wrote:
>   >
>   > >The question you need to answer before deciding on inks,
>   > >is how are you going to control them? ...
>   >
>   > >Option 1) The specialized software almost certainly gives
>   > >the best results, but particularly at this size, is
>   > >very expensive. ...
>   >
>   > I hope to have an inkset that will allow a RIP to do a good 
job,
>   but I also
>   > want the inkset to be controllable by the Epson driver.  That
>   puts some
>   > price pressure on the RIP sellers.  There will (hopefully soon)
>   be some new
>   > RIPs that might be much cheaper than the existing ones.
>   >
>   > >The partitioned workflow approach: When it works well,
>   > >it works very well also, ...
>   >
>   > I don't know if the 7000 vm curves work on the 7500.  I'm not
>   interested in
>   > the old vm.  The new vm may be a few weeks off.  I'm more
>   interested in a
>   > new version of the vm-s, with a range from slightly
>   cool/selenium to sepia.
>   >
>   > >I have been using a ... Epson Archival Black ...
>   > > for the gray positions, and the new Cone Museum K for
>   black.
>   >
>   > That is what is in my 7500 now.  The MIS matte black/PT
>   Museum K in the K
>   > position, Epson Archival Black in the cyan position, then
>   dilutions of gray
>   > and a toner.  The goal is a variable-tone, dual-K machine that
>   can print on
>   > matte or RC papers with software black ink switching.  But, my
>   inkset is not
>   > ready to go yet.  I've been able to do software switching on a
>   quad, so I
>   > think the Epson driver might be able to do it on the 7500.  
It's
>   going to be
>   > a few weeks before I have it all sorted out.  I'll, of course,
>   publish any
>   > curves I make that control whatever inkset I end up using.
>   >
>   ...
>   >
>   > >There is one other possibility cropping up, that is in the
>   > >development phase: something called Gimp-print, which is a
>   Linux-
>   > >Unix-Mac OS X printing utility. ...
>   >
>   > I hope this pans out, but I don't think it's quite ready for 
prime
>   time and
>   > PCs yet.
>   >
>   > Paul
>   > http://www.PaulRoark.com
> 
>   Hi Paul,
> 
>   I'm also interested in your new ink ideas for the 7500.  I
>   don't have one yet but I'm getting there.  Currently I just
>   run vm-sepia inks on an 1160.   I'm the one who
>   started this recent gimp-print flurry.  I've got the OS X
>   version working fine.  It eliminates the whole GCR issue
>   which makes the curve design much easier.  I don't know
>   if this option is open to you but with some Linux effort
>   this whole thing could be open to PC machines as well.
> 
>   Roy
> 
> 
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