Digital BW, The Print

John,

I just want to clear up a couple issues.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "johngeyles" <jge@c...> 
wrote:
> 
> > Forgive me but your post sounds a little like sour grapes.
> 
> Maybe that's fair.  And I guess it's right that most of the
> problems people seem to be having here are related to Linux
> (rather than OSX) installations.

The Linux installations are a whole different ball park.  I don't have
any Linux boxes, so these guys are porting software that has never
been compiled, tested, or even tried on those operating systems.

> 
> I have no doubt that QTR gives wonderful results (and thanks
> for the offer to send me a test print), but I wonder
> if they are better than OPM/IJC.  

The print engine for both systems is the same -- gimp-print.  So if
whoever designed the curves for each system, did as good a job
the results should be the very similar.

Of course, QTR allows printing
> color too (but I'm pretty satisfied with color from the Epson
> driver).  

There is no color printing for either QTR or IJC.  They both use
grayscale input and control each of the inks independently.

   I think the main reason I'd want to use QTR is that
> I want to migrate from OS9 to OSX, and OPM/IJC is only for OS9

For a user downloading existing curves, the OS9 vs OSX is primarily
the only big difference.  There is a usage difference in that IJC uses
a separate program OPM to do the printing, QTR uses the standard
print dialogues of the OS.

Designing curves is fairly different for the two products.

> (Antonis, is OPM/IJC gonna become available for OSX ?).  And there
> seem to be a lot more QTR users, so maybe more profiles downloadable.
> 
> Anyhow, in the spirit that the newbie original-poster is probably
> better off with an incremental approach, I still think he might be
> better off starting with OPM.
> 
> John

Roy