Digital BW, The Print

There is a "Fast" dither option that can significantly reduce printing 
time without diminishing print quality.  I don't know if this option is 
available in the PC version.


On Friday, August 27, 2004, at 09:37  AM, Alan.Huntley@... wrote:

> Paul/Tom,
>
> Back when I used QTR on my Mac (G4 - 450mhz) I found it to be about 
> 50%, at least, slower than the Epson driver. If I remember 
> correctly--been a couple of years--it was about 40 minutes to print 
> ~A3 size! To be fair to QTR and Roy, I firmly believe the lack of 
> speed was due to GIMP. Maybe the latest release of the GIMP drivers 
> are faster...dunno...I use IP on Windoze, now.
>
> Alan Huntley
>
>>
>> From: Tom Baker <tbaker1328@...>
>> Date: 2004/08/26 Thu PM 04:05:24 EDT
>> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] QTR on XP Home Edition?
>>
>> Paul  -
>>
>> I haven't printed anything on my 9600 with the Epson drivers in over 
>> a year.  But, as I recall, IP is slower than the Epson drivers.  
>> Especially if one is printing at 2880.  When I upgraded my computer, 
>> I did not see any difference in prints speeds, so I believe the 
>> differences must be in the bit streams being sent to the printer.  
>> IP's may be quite a bit more complex.
>>
>> Tom Baker
>>
>> Paul Roark <paul.roark@...> wrote:
>> Tom,
>>
>>> When you say IP and QTR are 'slow', what symptoms are you talking 
>>> about?
>>
>> With QTR I've just printed the same test image (a test strip on a 
>> layer of
>> an 8x10) with both QTR (a grayscale file) and the Epson driver (RGB 
>> file,
>> curve applied, 1440, high speed off). The Epson driver took 142 
>> seconds;
>> QTR took 270 seconds.
>>
>> At Anderson Ranch they have IP6 for their 9600. I was amazed at how 
>> long it
>> took to print one of my images. The staff there concurred that the 
>> program
>> printed much slower than the Epson driver. I don't have the program 
>> myself,
>> so I have not been able to quantify the difference.
>>
>> So, I have limited observations, and there may be variables that I'm 
>> not
>> aware of, but it looks like the Epson driver might have an edge when 
>> it
>> comes to speed.
>>
>> Paul
>> www.PaulRoark.com
>>
>> ____________________________________
>>
>> Paul Roark
>> wrote:
>> Evan,
>>
>> I've been out of the loop for a while but just tried QTR on my XP 
>> Home, and
>> it works fine. It's slow and the dmax is low for the EEM neutral curve
>> supplied, but I'm going to try adjusting the ink load to see if that 
>> takes
>> care of the latter problem. (I tried Image Print and found it was 
>> very slow
>> also. I don't know if that is typical of third party RIPs or not.)
>>
>> Paul
>> www.PaulRoark.com
>> ________________________
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wolarsky [mailto:wolarsky@...]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:51 AM
>> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [Digital BW] QTR on XP Home Edition?
>>
>> Will QTR run on XP Home Edition or is the Professional version needed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Evan
>>
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