Digital BW, The Print

And, thus, my question is answered: it *does* work with Mac OS 
8.6. To quote Bugs Bunny, "Ahh, there's good news tonight!"

- Barrett

--- 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