Digital BW, The Print

Very interesting stuff.  I downloaded the software and info.
I don't have any of the printers mentioned but the documentation
is very enlightening.  The OPM is based on the gimp-print code
that I have been working with lately.  They must have worked
on it to support independent ink control and made it work on
OS 9 instead of OS X.   So I would think it's not far to get it
to run back on OS X.   

Roy


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Antonis 
Ricos" <antonisphoto@y...> wrote:
> I just checked the new bowhaus site:
> 
> http://www.bowhaus.com/inkjetcontrol/
> 
> You can now download the Printing part of the new software for 
free, including 
> a bunch of profiles for the 1280, 2200 and 7000.
> 
> What gives, you ask?....  those who know the story of Open 
Source code can 
> tell it better than I can. But briefly, the software that bowhaus 
markets as 2 
> applications - Inkjet Control  (IJC) and OpenPrintMaker (OPM) - 
have different 
> licenses. IJC is built on proprietary code and is sold and 
licenced like any 
> commercial software. This is the program that makes profiles. 
OPM, however, 
> which actually accepts an image file and runs the printer, is 
built on Open 
> Source code and hence belongs in the public domain (also the 
reason for the 
> name). 
> 
> As a result, you can download OPM right now and, if the 
profiles available fit 
> your printer/ink/paper choices, you can be off to the races - for 
free. You also 
> get to see what OPM does and doesn't do (like no custom 
page sizes, no roll 
> functions for the 7000, max page size 24x36, but a nice image 
adjust feature 
> for brightness and contrast).
> 
> Ah, but not so fast: The blender portion of OPM (where you can 
pick 2 profiles 
> and blend between them) will not work without IJC. And, of 
course, you also 
> can't make new profiles, or tweak the canned ones.  For that 
you have to pay 
> for  IJC.
> 
> As a reminder - this is for Mac OS 8 and 9 only.
> 
> 
> Antonis