Digital BW, The Print

So I just found that the free Gimprint epson drivers are now available
for the mac. I'm wondering if any engineers out there on the list
would know how to adapt these drivers into quad/hex drivers?

Looks like there's a lot of flexibility already built in, and since
it's open-source and cross-platform, it would be a great way to expand
our possibilities for printing...

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "George Hartzell" <hartzell@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Anyone tried CUPS/Gimprint drivers?


> charles_bandes writes:
>  > So I just found that the free Gimprint epson drivers are now available
>  > for the mac. I'm wondering if any engineers out there on the list
>  > would know how to adapt these drivers into quad/hex drivers?
>  > 
>  > Looks like there's a lot of flexibility already built in, and since
>  > it's open-source and cross-platform, it would be a great way to expand
>  > our possibilities for printing...
> 
> I'd like to second this idea.  I looked into it a while back, but the
> package was too immature and seemed windows bound.
> 
> I'd love to see something on the free unix platforms, and on OS X.
> 
> I'm a competent programmer, but will need others guidance on RIP
> issues and tools etc...

Strange, Gimp and Gimp print are very open source / Linux orientated.
The Windows version of Gimp is just the exception.

Ernst

charles_bandes writes:
 > So I just found that the free Gimprint epson drivers are now available
 > for the mac. I'm wondering if any engineers out there on the list
 > would know how to adapt these drivers into quad/hex drivers?
 > 
 > Looks like there's a lot of flexibility already built in, and since
 > it's open-source and cross-platform, it would be a great way to expand
 > our possibilities for printing...

I'd like to second this idea.  I looked into it a while back, but the
package was too immature and seemed windows bound.

I'd love to see something on the free unix platforms, and on OS X.

I'm a competent programmer, but will need others guidance on RIP
issues and tools etc...

g.

The nice thing is that since Macs are all Unix-based now, most of this
open-source Linux software is coning over to the Mac really
easily/quickly.

So that covers Linux and MacOS, and there are so many Windows users
out there that even if porting to Windows is a little more difficult,
the engineering power is there to do the job anyway :)

> Strange, Gimp and Gimp print are very open source / Linux orientated.
> The Windows version of Gimp is just the exception.
> 
> Ernst

Ernst Dinkla writes:
 > 
 > ----- Original Message ----- 
 > From: "George Hartzell" <hartzell@...>
 > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
 > > [...]
 > > I'd like to second this idea.  I looked into it a while back, but the
 > > package was too immature and seemed windows bound.
 > 
 > [...]
 > Strange, Gimp and Gimp print are very open source / Linux orientated.
 > The Windows version of Gimp is just the exception.

I should expand on this a bit.

I'm not so interested in using gimp as my image processing engine
(yet), so that facet of my brain was thinking about a platform where I
could use Photoshop and the gimp-print drivers, which was Windows.

Now that OS X is on the scene, it's a different story.  Photoshop and
the Gimp side by side printing through a variety of drivers.  Editing
in Xemacs (wheee.....), using all of my unix tools.  All I need is the
OS X version of the piezography driver.

g.