Digital BW, The Print

On Monday 18 December 2006 15:22, Steve Kale wrote:
> That\ufffds a bit of an understatement.  It uses portions of the Gimp code but it
> is not just that plus \ufffda bunch of profiling and user-interface stuff\ufffd!

Whether it's an understatement or not, I don't know, because I haven't
looked at the QTR code.  I was just paraphrasing the license, which
says [1]:

    The QuadToneRIP product has multiple pieces of code. The low
    level drivers for the Epson printers are based on Gimp-Print
    Open Source Project.  ...  The rest of code for the QuadToneRIP
    product including Quad Tone Profiling, ICC profiling, installers
    and user interface are all proprietary work.

I think the interesting thing here is that the GIMP/Gutenprint [2]
developers *have* delivered a "poor man's RIP" (and in fact, I
think that part of the effort pre-dates QTR).

Gutenprint is not specifically targeted at Epson printers, so I
think some very interesting things could happen if somebody were
to add better color management to Gutenprint and turn it into
more of a real RIP.

[1] http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRlicense.html
[2] http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

> From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:18:22 -0700
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Linux printing - dead neutral on an Epson 1800 /
> premium luster
> 
> On Thursday 14 December 2006 16:50, darrelleifert wrote:
> > So, am I seeing things, or have the GIMP/Gutenprint developers managed
> > to deliver a "poor man's B&W RIP" for the Epson 1800?
> 
> According to the QTR license, it is built on top of the GIMP/Gutenprint
> code.  QTR adds a bunch of profiling and user-interface stuff, but the
> underlying driver is basically the same code you're using, at least for
> Epson printers.