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RE: [Digital BW] Re: QTRgui

2004-09-27 by Stephen Billard

There needs to be a way to tell QuadToPrinter to do the dither. None of the
batch files I looked at provide a way. Maybe Roy can shed some light on
this.

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Freeman [mailto:quakewarning@...] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 2:05 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: QTRgui
> 
> 
> Well I haven't tried anything with it but looking through the 
> files the quad2200.ppd file has this section:
> 
> *OpenUI *stpDither/Dither Algorithm: PickOne
> *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *stpDither
> *DefaultstpDither: Ordered
> *stpDither Ordered/Ordered: "<</cupsRowStep 1>>setpagedevice" 
> *stpDither Adaptive/Adaptive Hybrid: "<</cupsRowStep 
> 0>>setpagedevice" *stpDither Fast/Fast: "<</cupsRowStep 
> 2>>setpagedevice" *stpDither VeryFast/Very Fast: 
> "<</cupsRowStep 3>>setpagedevice" *stpDither Floyd/Hybrid 
> Floyd-Steinberg: "<</cupsRowStep 4>>setpagedevice" *stpDither 
> EvenTone/EvenTone: "<</cupsRowStep 5>>setpagedevice"
> *CloseUI: *stpDither
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen 
> Billard" <stephen@s...> wrote:
> > I wasn't aware that QuadToneRIP supported a dithering method. There
> is no
> > Dithering in my 2200 batch file. What printer are you using? How is 
> > dithering setup in the batch file?
> > 
> > Once I understand how it is done, I can add it.
> > 
> > -Stephen
> >  www.sbillard.org/Stephen
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Stephen.
> > > 
> > > Thank you for the hard work on QTRgui. If I could offer one
> > > suggestion: I would love to see  QTRgui allow you to select 
> > > the dithering method. I went back to the batch files because 
> > > that lets me select "eventone" dithering, while QTRgui (and 
> > > the original Harrington batch files) set the dither to "ordered". 
> > > 
> > > Ciao!
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > > 
> 
> 
> 
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