Digital BW, The Print

Daniel Staver is far more expert in this than I am. If I have any glaring
errors or omissions I hope he will jump in and correct them - but -  Here is
how I did it. The directions are for a mac and linux doesn't have some of
the nice front end goodies that the mac does so they simply do not apply for
much of the installation on a linuxbox.  I simply banged on it until I more
or less figured it out. I used linux a fair bit in the dim past to set up
web and file servers but that was well before it had a graphical front end
or a decent printing system. I have had to relearn much of it. Not all
versions of linux are good candidates for QuadRip. RedHat 9.0 works well,
SuSE 8.2 works OK, Mandrake 9.1 does not because they have tinkered with
some of the file names in implementing the cups system. I would suggest
standardizing on the Redhat version.

Depending on how you installed your linux system you may not have all of the
packages that you need to install QuadRip. You are probably going to have to
download a rpm containing cups-devel-1.1.1x where x is the version of cups
that your system is using, typically 9. In SuSE you may have to download the
cups development library as well. The reason for this is that the install of
QuadRIP requires cups-config which is in the development package but not in
the standard cups installation.

Once cups-devel is installed then QuadRIP will install. Basically, after you
download QuadRip put a copy in /usr/share and gunzip off the gz. run
tar -xvf on the QuadRIP tar package and it will set up a new directory,
QuadToneRIP2-beta,  containing what you will need to complete the install.
CD into the new Quad directory and run make-quadtonerip then run
install-quadtonerip. That should set up the basic QuadRIP system. To
generate curves and the like you will need to go to the specific program
elements and run them from a command line. The directories these are in are
listed in Roy's documentation.

Now the rub. You can't (at least I can't) print in QuadRIP directly from
linux. The way gimp-print is implemented doesn't allow you to select the
QuadRIP drivers when setting up the Quadtone printer. Appaerntly this can be
circumvented by setting up samba and printing from windows. I am in the
process of implementing that step after Daniel Staver was kind enough to
share how he did it with me. His message detailing this complete with his
smb.conf file is  in the archives.

Linux has the advantage of being free and you can stick it onto virtually
any old PC that you might have lying around. But there is significant sweat
equity involved in becoming comfortable with the operating system if you go
beyond the installed graphical interface. On the other hand it is so much
cleaner and faster than windows, particularly on older PCs, that you may
find yourself using the linuxbox for more than printing.

I have hedged my bet and bought an old mac powerpc (beige box) on ebay that
I will fuss with if the linux version does not fulfill my needs. Plus I want
to give opm/ijc a try as well. I have waited for the new piezo software and
have lost all confidence that it will be forthcoming so an alternative
solution is a necessity. Quad and opm seem to fit that bill.

Roger
  -----Original Message-----
  From: dilcher [mailto:dilcher@...]
  Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 9:36 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: QUAD2-RIP


  Can you tell me what you used to guide you through setting this up
  on Linux?

  The author's notes seem to be for a MAC...


  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Roger Sopher
  <rlsopher@c...> wrote:
  > I have managed to get Roy's program to install in both RedHat 9.0 and
  > SuSE 8.2 dialects of linux. As far as I can see the correct things have
  > been stuffed into the proper folders. However, when I bring gimp-print
  > up (from right clicking a gimp image) I'll be dipped if I can get the
  > quad series of printers to show up when I hit new. I can find the ppds
  > where they should be ( /usr/share/cups/ppds/C ) but then none of the
  > quad specific choices appear, for that matter the usual choices that
  > exist for an epson printer are grayed out.
  >
  > I tried going back to the print manager and adding a new printer via
  > cups but the same thing happened.
  >
  > I am obviously missing a step but after going through the documentation
  > multiple times I can't find where I have goofed.
  >
  > Could any of you who have this up and running on a linuxbox give me a
  > hint?
  >
  > Thanks,
  >
  > Roger
  >
  > Roger Sopher
  > rlsopher@d...


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