Digital BW, The Print

Roger and Roman,

I know you're not able to use the curve editing "quadcurves" as
is because lpadmin is missing.  However with some simple
text editing you can fix this.  Edit /usr/local/bin/quadcurves
There's only two things needed:

1) comment out the lpadmin line and the echo's
2) the edit script immediately above writes to /tmp/quad.ppd
    -- remove the tmp name which will then write it back to original location.

You may have to run quadcurves with su privileges if the
ppd file is read-only.

Hope that helps.
Roy

Here's a copy of the modified area:

if ed -s $PPDFILE <<\!
/\*DefaultripCurve1:/,/\*CloseUI:.*ripCurve1/d
-r /tmp/quad1.tmp
/\*DefaultripCurve2:/,/\*CloseUI:.*ripCurve2/d
-r /tmp/quad2.tmp
w
q
!
then
#  if lpadmin -p $PPDBASE -P /tmp/quad.ppd
#  then
    echo "Curves Installed Successfully"
#  else
#    echo "Error: Udpate of \"${PPDFILE}\" failed"
#  fi
else
  echo "Error: Udpate of \"${PPDFILE}\" failed"
fi


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "romanatybwg" 
<romanatybwg@y...> wrote:
> 
> Roger,
> 
> I use a VM curve because I have a regular (not Eboni) black, two greys
> and a tonner. I'm printing on glossy because this is the black I had
> in my 1160. A cart with Eboni is 'curing' overnight for matte tests
> tomorrow.
> 
> I have no problems with QPR, getting a handle on knowing that the
> curves are properly loaded is another matter. BTW, in your message you
> referred to toner as worm toner. I was under the impression that -grey
> is just black and the greys and -toned curve adds the bluish toner
> which would 'cool' the print. S my assumption that Curve1=grey,
> Curve2=none and 100/0 in QPR should produce quite warm print without
> any toner.
> 
> When I mess up thing during testing I use the following procedure to
> get things back on track:
> 
>   
>  1. run-quadprofile
>  2. drag/drop 1160-vm-grey.txt into terminal window
>  3. edit /etc/cups/ppd/QUAD1160.ppd to add *ripCurve1 1160-vm-grey: ""
>     after *ripCurve1 - /None; "" in the Curve1 section.
>     I'm not adding 1160-vm-toned in Curve2 section for simplicity.
>     Also I'm not adding -cal-gray-calib etc because I don't have those 
>     curves.
>  4. run Webmin, select -grey as default Curve1, none for Curve2, Save.
>     After this step my QUAD1160.ppd in /etc/cups/ppd shows -grey as      
>     DefaultripCurve1 and my manual entry dissapears ( I quess this is 
>     to be expected)
> 
> Is there anything else I can run to make sure that my curve is 
> loaded ?
> 
> Also, to go back to my previous post, how can I run calibration
> routine just with QPR. I believe the calibration calls for color space
> settings which would require something like PS ?
> 
> I'm playing with 1160 rather than 2200 to get my feet wet (sure I am)
> and to leave 2200/WinXP/PS/IP setup as areference point.
> Connecting my 220 to a fedora box would mess up my workflow.
> 
> Roman
> > 
> > I don't think that is a great combination for glossy paper. All of the
> > curves were derived for matte paper, specifically EEM and there are
> > enough differences that I am not surprised that the results are less
> > than swift.
> > 
> > . . . 
> > Roger
> > 
> > rlsopher@d...
> > http://deCorrales.com