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Re: [Digital BW] Re: digital prints vs. wet prints

2003-11-11 by Tom Baker

There's a Panther upgrande on Colorbyte's web site.
 
TB

Roy Harrington <roy@...> wrote:
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom OConnell" <tomoc@y...> 
wrote:
> > 
> > Sure.  As long as you have OS X 10.2 Jaguar.  I haven't tried 
> Panther yet but
> > I expect it to work -- if not I'll be figuring why not :)
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi Roy-
> 
> I'll be very interested to hear if this is true for you...I don't 
> have mac, but have been reading an incessantly whiney thread in the 
> IP forum and Colorbyte has answered it with a complaint that Panther 
> is so radically different from Jaguar, they need to do massive 
> reworking of the drivers...
> 
> Wonder if you will confirm or expose the concept...
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Tom O'Connell

Hi Tom,

I don't have Panther running on my machine yet, but I have done some
sleuthing to find out some of the printing issues with Panther.
The basic printing system is very much the same in Panther and it was
in Jaguar.  Briefly its based on a thing called CUPS (Common Unix Printing
System) which automatically connects whatever programs are needed to
handle all image formats, networking, device drivers etc.

As far as QuadToneRIP is concerned what I've found is that the calibration
mode that worked in Jaguar does not work correctly in Panther.  This is
a somewhat unorthodox CMYK trick I used to print each ink separately
on one page.  The regular usage of printing grayscale appears to work
just fine using exactly the same curves/profiles.

Why ImagePrint doesn't work on Panther I don't know.  I can't see why it
should be hard to upgrade, but again I don't know.  

Roy



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