Digital BW, The Print

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 12:50, romanatybwg wrote:
> Roger and Stan, it's assme not assume :)
> 
> I thought I installed cc but it was late last night...
> 
> The rest of the install went well with the exception of
> Run-Install-Curves. Instead of opening a teminal to accept my 'enter'
> it opened/closes terminal very quickly - I'm affraid that this step
> was not completed successfully. Any way to verify the installation of
> the curve in a proper printer folder ?
> 
> Another issue is qtcups. It seems no longer supported and available
> for download. What other command line utilities are found to do a job
> ?
> 
> I tried to use a graphical print manager. The job sent to the QUAD
> printer dissapeared into thin air. QUAD printer configuration in tn
> graphical print manager shows 'Unable to write raster data to driver!'
> Is it notmal because another printer utility should be used or is it a
> reflection of a problem I mention on top of this message.
> 
I mentioned that there were a couple of tweaks that are needed in Fedora
- this is one of them. The people that put fedora together substituted
redhat-config-printers for lpadmin in the cups rpm. Roy's install curves
script calls another script, quadcurves, that needs lpadmin. The work
around is to install the curves in the ppd manually.  Sounds worse than
it is. That section of the ppd after I manually entered the curves for
my printer looks like:

*OpenUI *ripCurve1/QuadTone RIP Curve 1: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 20 AnySetup *ripCurve1
*DefaultripCurve1: -
*ripCurve1 -/None: ""
*ripCurve1 860-vm-cal-gray-calib: ""
*ripCurve1 860-vm-cal-toned-calib: ""
*ripCurve1 860-vm-gray: ""
*ripCurve1 860-vm-toned: ""
*CloseUI: *ripCurve1

*OpenUI *ripCurve2/QuadTone RIP Curve 2: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 20 AnySetup *ripCurve2
*DefaultripCurve2: -
*ripCurve2 -/None: ""
*ripCurve2 860-vm-cal-gray-calib: ""
*ripCurve2 860-vm-cal-toned-calib: ""
*ripCurve2 860-vm-gray: ""
*ripCurve2 860-vm-toned: ""
*CloseUI: *ripCurve2

Now, once you manually enter your curve(s), running run-quadprofile will
put any additional curves you may come up with where they belong in the
ppd.

Once you have the curves loaded into the ppd then you go to webmin and
select the curves. Only do it once. If you do it a second time it will
go out and bring in the unmodified ppd and the curves won't show up. Not
a major problem since they can be brought back by running
run-quadprofile and reentering one of your curves.

Printing can be done a couple of different ways. The easiest is to use a
command line script. Dave Wroblewski has QPR in the files section of the
B&W print and it works well. You will have to edit the printer name and
curve names but that is fairly straight forward. I am working on a
second approach printing from photoshop but there are still a couple of
bugs that need to be solved.

Roger