Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ernst Dinkla" 
<E.Dinkla@c...> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Karafyllakis" <steve@s...>
> 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

I agree that tryimg to take it all the way to creating ICCs is a bit 
of a leap; I'm looking for relatively easy additions to make Qimage 
useful enough to more frequently take advantage of its remarkable 
interpolation and sharpening abilities.

So far I have on my list-

A) full .psd layered file compatibility

B) Setting up Profile Prism to generate greyscale ICCs which we 
could then use in Qimage

C)Ability to load Photoshop .acv curves in the curves dialogue box; 
that would allow partitioned RGB workflow without having to flatten 
and save a copy.

d) The ability to save an interpolated/ sharpened image to use with 
other workflows/RIPS; To me this alone would justify the price- this 
is much faster and more effective than that over-rated piece of 
*##*## Genuine Fractals.

I have to confess at this point that I don't know the program well 
enough to know if there's some not too obvious way to already do 
some of these things, such as saving a processed image. If anyone 
does know it well enough, please jump in.

Any further ideas?

Steve