Digital BW, The Print

I see the Epson 4000 discussions have started.  This printer
being an 8 ink printer has some new issues in general and for
QTR in particular.  Being gimp-print based for now, it's quite
dependent on what's in gimp-print.  As Roger has mentioned new
PPD files would be needed.  This is probably easy compared to
dealing with the internals that are 7 ink oriented for the most part.
One stop gap method would be to define "two" printers one a
photo ink printer and the other a matte ink printer.  From the
Epson literature it seems they are supporting only one of the
blacks at a time.

So far I haven't seen a Programmers Guide for the new printer.
I don't expect any major issues but the nitty-gritty details would
be necessary to get things working.

As far as different interfaces to printers are concerned, the issue
is mainly a CUPS capability.  I believe ethernet connections work but
have never tried it.  I don't think Firewire and Bluetooth are
possible yet and haven't any idea if they are coming.

If it's any consolation, I've got one of these 4000's on order as well.

Roy


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "flyfishingusa2002" 
<tflyfish@c...> wrote:
> I have a similar setup to you, the difference is that I do not 
> currently have a linux machine but a Mac running OSX. 
> Have you, or anybody else found a way to print directly to QTR (via 
> Gimprint) rather than saving the output from PS in windows to a 
> shared file and them having to work on a second machine to output 
> via QTR?
> I have a second question which is, does QTR support printing to a 
> ethernet connected printer? I have a small home network with several 
> machines and would like to install my 2200 and 3000 as networked 
> printers.
> Last, but not least does anyone know anything about printing to a 
> 2200 via bluetooth, I have done a search on Epsons site and drawn a 
> blank so far.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Sierra Gold
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roger L 
> Sopher" <rlsopher@c...> wrote:
> > 
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From: thecat6955082 [mailto:g.patrias@w...]
> > 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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