Digital BW, The Print

Joe, Antonis:

First, a Happy New Year to all, may 2005 have as many interesting 
and useful developments as 2004.

This all looks very interesting, but I need to have a few questions 
answered before making the leap:

Looking around on the Bowhaus web site, I see that the package comes 
with a set of 'starter' profiles, but I could not find out which 
papers and inks are covered, can you give us some info on that? Will 
there be more profiles available over time?

Realistically, does one need to have a densitometer to make new B&W 
profiles, or does a scanner actually work well?

I'm still not clear as to what kind of an ink setup this is intended 
for: quadtone, hextone, Ultrachromes, what?
and if it works with Ultrachromes is it ICC compliant? IOW can I use 
a third party profile made with, say Monaco, or Gretag, etc.,

Are there any compositing abilities? Can I print several different 
images/sizes on the same piece of paper?

Thanks looking forward to learning more.

Steve Karafyllakis--- In 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jbowhaus" 
<joeberndt@v...> wrote:
> 
> Happy New Year everyone.
> 
> I'd like to announce the long awaited release of IJC/OPM 
> ( InkjetControl OpenPrintMaker) for Windows XP.   
> 
> This pre-release version 1.0.0 has most all of the Mac OS X 
features
> with a few major improvements. The most notable new feature is 
profile 
> blending through an Alphachannel.  This lets you assign a 
different profile 
> selectively to an area of an image thru its alpha mask. You simply 
paint an 
> Alpha mask onto your image in PhotoShop, then save as a TIFF file 
with 
> it'smask.  Once imported into OPM, you can then assign one profile 
to the 
> base image and a different profile to the Alpha mask.   So one 
example would 
> be to, use this feature to isolate the shadows of an image and 
produce true 
> split-toning, another would be to isolate a unique element of a 
image and 
> control the tone of that element.  
> 
> Another new feature is the RGB channel mixer; this feature lets you
> control how a RGB (color) image is converted into black and 
white.  The
> channel mixer feature uses sliders for Red Green and Blue; these 
sliders can
> be linked together so during adjustment the luminosity of the 
image is 
> maintained. 
> 
> For a limited time (until Jan 5, 2005) we will be offering this 
pre-release 
> version for $179.95, a savings of $70 off the regular price.  This 
is a special 
> offer that you won't find advertised on any of the public pages of 
our website.  
> In order to purchase the pre-release version please use this 
> 
> special log-in info:
> 
> Name: bwspecial
> Password: ijcopmwin
> 
> And go to:
> 
> http://www.bowhaus.com/SPECIAL/IJCOPMBuyWINspl.htm
> 
> Sorry for the shameless plug..
>  
> Joe Berndt
> BowHaus, Inc.