Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Karafyllakis" <steve@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 6:14 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: New B&W features for Qimage? Wish-List!


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom
Husband"
> <thusband@s...> wrote:
> > How about ICC profiles through his Profile Prism for B&W
> printers?
> > The latest version 4.08 is the best yet for color and,
amazingly,
> > it's scanner based.  I wonder if he set his mind to B&W what
he'd
> > come up with?
> >
> > Tom Husband
>
> Hmmm... I'm confused, don't know Profile Prism at all. Its a
color
> profiling app right? You're suggesting he make that capable of
> generating greyscale ICCs like the new Cone system, and then
using
> them in Qimage? Sounds interesting!
>
> Steve Karafyllakis

Steve,

But is most likely not delivering what you want. So far even the
cheaper Spectrometers (SpectroCam etc) can't measure beyond 1.7 D
accurately and people involved in B&W printing get secondhand
densitometers instead to measure their greyscales for curve
control. I'm afraid scanners are even more limited on that
aspect.

The best thing for quad and hexatone printing with Qimage would
be a port of Gimp-print (+ CUPS ?) to Windows. That gives better
custom paper setting controls and curves. When greyscale profiles
can be created they can be used in Qimage, till then greyscale
curves can be applied in Gimp-print. Linux and OS X have an
advantage now in B&W printing (if it has to be done cheap:-).

Ernst