Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Staver" <daniel@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:39 AM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: StudioPrint Evaluation


> Ernst,
>
> you can set up the linux machine as a print server and print to
it
> directly from Photoshop on yur own PC. That way you don't need
any
> additional licenses, and you can print comfortably from an
environment
> you know well.

Then it could be done from Qimage as well I think which would be
a an even better setup.

> On linux you need to install the Samba file and print services
to share
> your printer, while In windows you install the free Adobe
Postscript
> drivers and point them to the shared Linux printer and its
associated
> PPD.

Does it handle printer files up to 500 MB ? So you also have
Ghostscript or something else in between for the interpretation
of the PS files on the Linux box. It then becomes a long chain,
I'm not so keen about that. I guess part of Qimage's better
interpolation will not survive that translation either. Isn't
there a possibility to throw a raw (tiff) directly from Qimage
that the driver can handle ? Print from Qimage to a hot map or
something like that. Postscript isn't always the best way on
colour management either

> It's not perfect, I still have to enter some specific driver
settings on
> the Linux machine, as it seems to ignore them if I set them in
the PPD.
> But once you set the settings in Linux they stay that way until
you
> change them again. Different sets of settings can be saved, so
> essentially you would only have to run a single command to
change to any
> predefined set of settings.

Wonder whether my friend can add something to Roy's concept so
the whole becomes a bit more "salon faehig". Reading Roy's latest
additions it is at its core better than anything else. But Roy's
time will be limited.

Ernst