Digital BW, The Print

> > Actually 1.1 works fine for this as well. I've had god results with
> > that
> > version, the only problem is speed. I can make 20 prints 
> with the Epson
> > driver in the time it takes QuadToneRIP to do one print. That's not
> > specifically a problem with QTR though, but Gimp-Print in general.
> 
>  From what I understand from Roy, you need version 2 to get away from 
> Epson's partitioning.

No, 1.1 also partitions the inks any way you want them, but two inks at
a time. That is, you have one curve for black+light black, another for
cyan + light cyan, a last one for magenta + light magenta (and also
yellow of course). Since gimp-print allows you to print with either 4, 6
or 7 inks with the 2100 you can effectively get rid of the additional
inks and reduce the printer to a 4 or 6 color printer. Sometimes that
makes the profiling easier.

> Also, not sure it is a gimp-print problem...because I think 
> that's more 
> or less what the OPM driver is based on...and the prints sail out of 
> the 2200 with OPM.

I'm running my printer from windows, shared over tcp/ip to a virtual
linux machine on the same windows computer, and then shared back again
to windows with adobe postscript - a fairly complicated setup. There
might be some significant implications for printing speed in that setup.
The advantage is that I can print directly from Photoshop in windows to
QTR and keep the printer connected to my windows machine for printing
with the Epson driver. If I connected the printer to linux VMware would
take over the USB port and I wouldn't be able to print with the Epson
driver anymore.


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Daniel Staver
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