Digital BW, The Print

I downloaded and printed first sample in about ten minutes last night. This
is an amazing transformation! An image I had about given up on will now get
some tweaking and a final print in the next day or two. Smooth tone now
replaces mild posterization, and muddy shadows now reveal detail I could
only see on screen.

One issue you may want to know about Roy: Not knowing what to expect, I
dropped the target image onto the .bat script without having paper in the
printer. When it started to print, I quickly dropped in a sheet of EEM and
hit the paper button. XP  promptly re-booted then came back reporting a
"serious" error having occurred. I re-booted once again then went about my
business. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Harrington [mailto:roy@...] 
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:56 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Announcement: QuadToneRIP for Windows XP

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Marquis-Kyle" 
<peter@m...> wrote:
> Roy Harrington wrote:
> 
> > I've just uploaded the first release of QuadToneRIP for the PC.
> > The initial version supports the 2200 with UltraChrome Inks.
> >
> > Other printers and canned profiles will be available fairly soon.
> > Support for creating your own profiles is not available yet.
> 
> Bravo, Roy!
> 
> Now I'll ask some of the questions that will make you ask yourself why 
> you began tinkering with Windows...

Yes, sometimes I wonder!

> 
> *  Will it work with Windows 2000?

I don't know.  I imagine the programs themselves will run just fine.  The
issue will be whether or not the output gets to the printer.  It would be
great if someone will a little windows know-how would try it.

> 
> *  What's the timetable for adding support for other printers? (Epson 
> 1160?)

The code is basically there. I've worked on some of the image positioning
code and I'd like to do some sanity test checking on the various printers.
If there are desires for certain printers I'll do those first.

> 
> *  Ditto other inksets (MIS-VM?)

I can bring the profiles I have over to windows.

> 
> *  Are the Windows profiles completely different from the *nix ones, 
> needing to be made from scratch, or can you convert one to another?

The profiles are identical -- the code that converts grayscale to printer
dots is identical.  Anyone with Mac profiles can just copy them over.

> 
> Peter Marquis-Kyle

Roy




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