Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dlruckus" 
<dlruckus@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Joost.
> Gutenprint has all the capabilities but--I think, for B&W, that QTR 
is
> still the one to beat. It's (QTR's) facilities for curve generation
> and ink limiting are an advance over those currently in gutenprint, 
in
> my estimation. It's not that gutenprint can't do the same things. It
> is just that it is not as friendly to use with instrumentation. A 
jump
> from what you describe as your current level with QTR to learning 
how
> to make advanced curves is likely to be much easier than starting 
over
> again with gutenprint. You already have all that you need for the
> task. If you haven't done so yet check out Paul Rourk's site for all
> the information he has set out for doing the sort of thing you are
> looking for with QTR. He has written some tutorials on the topic.
> 
>  I still use QTR for all of my B&W printing. The only reason I began
> exploring and using Gutenprint is because I had to have some sort of
> an advanced RIP for color work that I've been doing. I only wish it
> had some of the same functionality that QTR does. It would make it 
far
> easier to use and learn. As it stands, a lot of the parameters in
> Gutenprint are still buried within it's drivers. You can make
> adjustments to them but, unless you look at the source code itself,
> the base parameters are not directly visible to you so your changes
> are made somewhat blindly. They are not set up as log10 density or 
Lab
> values or percentages etc. Also any color management has to be done
> outside of gutenprint. I hope all that will change as time goes on 
but
> it may be awhile.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Duane
> 

Yes it does. Thanks for the elaborate explanation. I will just stick 
with QTR as planned. I already constructed a "dummy" setup for 6 
overlapping ink curves by using the QTR user curve feature. Looks not 
too difficult to do, although I still have a few questions on what 
would be the best strategy to overlap these curves for getting the 
best possible results. But I'll come back to that later.

Joost