Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy 
Harrington" <roy@h...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
> "Charles Bandes" <byronbulb@y...> wrote:
> > Ok - so starting with Roy's program was painful. I had a really 
> hard time at first (though Roy was insanely wonderfully helpful 
> and got me up to speed after a flurry of email :) ) but wow, I 
mean 
> WOW - it is working now, really really well. And he has a system 
> for making curves that actually sorta makes sense to me. The 
> upshot of this is that I made curves for my printer this afternoon 
> all by myself (well, um, with the help of some email and 
> spreadsheets from Roy) which are WORKING! Still need a little 
> tweaking, and my curves are not as good as, say, Tyler Boley's or 
> Paul Roark's, but considering that just yesterday I was 
> describing myself as an "end-user doofus" I am delighted with 
> the results I am getting now.
> > 
> > In an email to Roy a few minutes ago I said "Ok so I am 
> jumping around my studio feeling like a curve-development god 
> rather than an end-user doofus. Thank you!"
> > 
> > Anyway - once I get my curves working a little better I'll be 
> thrilled to share them with anyone else who wants them (MIS-VM 
> inks on a 1280) - I'd encourage everyone to try this system, it 
> works, and it's free!! :)
> 
> Charles, you've certainly been a help getting the quirks of
> the installation package worked out.  Thanks.
> 
> Just as soon as I can I'll get a new install package with all
> these fixes and a couple of other conveniences.  I'm also
> putting together a Linux set of files that should be easy to
> install on various Linuxes.   
> 
> Roy

Well, in that case I won't flush SuSE just yet. I finaly got to try 
the 4.3.11 version of gimp-print; it's interesting in that it gives 
you lots of control over each color and black, you could conceivably 
come up with a set of curves that does exactly what we need for 
quads, but no hextone control. It does have one huge glaring fatal 
flaw-there's no way (that I could see anyway) to save your curve set 
and apply it to another image. Perhaps a couple versions down the 
road they'll take care of that. In the meantime, there's lots of new 
stuff to occupy us.

Steve