Digital BW, The Print

The learning curve for Linux/freeBSD is not trivial, unless you already have
some familiarity with UNIX.  Once you get beyond the GUI interface that most
distributions install for you they are pretty much  command line systems.
You will need to get into the guts of the system to port something like
QuadTone Rip from the Mac to a Linux box. With two good free rips available
for the Mac it would be far easier, but also something more expensive, to
get a used Mac and go from there. I would go that route myself but the cost
of a decent Mac is beyond me for the moment so I will try to muddle through
with a UNIX like system.

Roger
Roger L Sopher
rlsopher@...
http:\\deCorrales.com

  -----Original Message-----
  From: flyfishingusa2002 [mailto:tflyfish@...]
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 10:21 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: QuadToneRIP new features


  I am a fairly good windows user but know nothing about Mac's or
  Linux.
  I would very much like to use a printer rip with my 2200 for B/W and
  QuadTone can't be beaten on price. The question is, should I run
  Linux on one of old pc's and network it as a print server, or,
  should I go and purchase a Mac to do it?
  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,

  Barry

  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy
  Harrington" <roy@h...> wrote:
  >
  > There's a new version now available.  Both the Mac OS X version
  and the
  > Linux source code are included.
  >
  > See:  http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html
  >
  > The lastest download has a few enhancements.
  >
  > 1) The major addition is an automated Linearization capability.
  This requires a
  > densitometer or the Eye-One spectro-photometer. With this feature
  once partitioning
  > of gray inks is done, by simply measuring densities and entering
  them into the
  > descriptor file a correction curve is generated to achieve the
  ideally spaced stepwedge
  > i.e. one that is optimized for equal visual separation throught
  the range.
  >
  > 2) The ink droplet size for 4 picoliter printers using 1440x720
  resolution has been
  > increased.  Several of the most popular printers fall into this
  category --  the 1160,
  > the 1270, and the 1280.  This means that the potential dMax for
  these printers is has
  > been increased when printing at 1440x720.
  >
  > 3) Quite a bit of tuning has been done for the 2200 printer. Both
  the internals have
  > been tweaked for greater smoothness and Carl has created all new
  curves for several
  > papers.
  >
  >  4) The Run-Install-Curves script is now automatically run
  whenever you create a
  > curve using Run-Quad-Profile.  Also a password is no longer needed
  for this.
  >
  > -------
  >
  > Just in case there is a flurry of questions, unfortunately I will
  be away
  > for much of August, so I won't be able to answer emails for a
  while.
  >
  > Roy Harrington
  > www.harrington.com


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