Digital BW, The Print

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From: thecat6955082 [mailto:g.patrias@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:44 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Epson 4000 and QTR


  I have purchased a 4000 and hope to get in in January from
  Inkjetart.  Meanwhile, I'm trying to get my ducks in line.  I
  currenty have a XP system but am thinking  of adding a dual boot
  Linux system so I can use Roy Harrington's QTR.  With 8 ink channels
  (7 plus 1 spare)including Photo Black, Matt Black and Light Black it
  appears ideal for use as both a color and BW (using the spare channel
  as another black shade. I am assuming that Roy will support the 4000
  in the near future (I hope).

  Have got a bunch of questions:
       1.  Which is the best Linux distrubution?

  So far as QTR2 is concerned the only disto that I have had trouble with is
Mandrake. RedHat is straight forward but is a bit in limbo at the present
time unless you want to cough up the bucks for the commercial (enterprise)
version. I have used SuSE with no real problems and others have used
variations based on Debian such as Gentoo.

       2.  Will there be a Linux gimp print driver for the 4000?

  I would suspect that it make take some time before a gomp-print driver is
available for the 4000 but just how long is problematic. What will be needed
is a QTR driver for the 4000 and that is separate and distinct from the
gimp-print drivers that come with a Linux distro.

       3.  Can I upgrade XP Photoshop 7 to Linux Photoshop CS or do I
  have to buy a new Linus PS?

  So far as I know there is no Linux version of Photoshop and I don't think
the windows version will work under one of the emulators such as wine. The
Gimp has many of Photoshop's features but is not yet in the same league as a
photo editor.


       4.  Does what I'm thinking make sense to for a dual BW/color
  workflow?

  I do my editing in Photoshop on a windows machine, store the image in a
shared file and print from Linux using QTR. I have Linux in a separate box
that is on my home LAN. Sounds much worse than it really is.

       5.  What problems can I anticipate?

  If you are not a Unix or Linux buff there will be a learning curve but it
isn't particularly formidable.  My WAG is that the major problem is going to
be how long it takes for Roy to produce a QTR PPD for the 4000.  I am
interested in the 4000 but have shied away until more is known about it and
until the needed support has emerged.

  I would bet that the commercial rip vendors will have support for the 4000
fairly early on but at a price.

  By the way I have about 50 years darkroom experience and 40 years
  with computer so I think I can handle a reasonable challange but do
  not want to spend a lot of time to get a working system debugged so
  if this approach does not make sense I would like to know.

  Thanks

  George P

   Roger



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