Digital BW, The Print

Roy,

I got Cups and Gimp-print going last night.  Mandrake pretty much does it 
for you.  Are there significant changes/improvements between the 
QuadGimp.tar.gz file you originally did and the QuadtoneRip.dmg.gz?  I 
assume the .dmg is an OS-X thing.

Did you see that there is a "Quadtones" ink selection in the last 
Gimp-print release, and that the development version has separate density 
controls for each ink?  I wonder how (or if?) they plan on having different 
curves for different papers?  Maybe the Gimp-print people will put your 
changes into the main-line Gimp-print?

- Keith

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Keith Douglas 
<kdouglas@q...> wrote:
> Roy,
> 
> I got Cups and Gimp-print going last night.  Mandrake pretty much 
does it 
> for you.  Are there significant changes/improvements between the 
> QuadGimp.tar.gz file you originally did and the 
QuadtoneRip.dmg.gz?  I 
> assume the .dmg is an OS-X thing.
> 
> Did you see that there is a "Quadtones" ink selection in the last 
> Gimp-print release, and that the development version has separate 
density 
> controls for each ink?  I wonder how (or if?) they plan on having 
different 
> curves for different papers?  Maybe the Gimp-print people will put 
your 
> changes into the main-line Gimp-print?

Hi Keith;

I finally just last night got that developmental version (4.3.11) 
going last night, haven't had much chance to test it, but the color 
print I tried had microbanding across the entire range- how is your 
print quality, and which version are you using?

It does have an impressive array of controls and curve boxes, though 
it doesn't yet separate dark colors from photo colors for hextone 
control.

Steve K
> 
> - Keith

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Keith 
Douglas <kdouglas@q...> wrote:
> Roy,
> 
> I got Cups and Gimp-print going last night.  Mandrake pretty 
much does it 
> for you.  Are there significant changes/improvements between 
the 
> QuadGimp.tar.gz file you originally did and the 
QuadtoneRip.dmg.gz?  I 
> assume the .dmg is an OS-X thing.

Yes, the dmg this an OS X distribution thing. Actually some of
the changes were because of the other Linux port i.e. to make
it more portable.  I've got to make up a new tar file to give you
new stuff.
 
> 
> Did you see that there is a "Quadtones" ink selection in the last 
> Gimp-print release, and that the development version has 
separate density 
> controls for each ink?  I wonder how (or if?) they plan on having 
different 
> curves for different papers?  Maybe the Gimp-print people will 
put your 
> changes into the main-line Gimp-print?

I initially tried the Quadtone in 4.2 but there weren't any controls
plus I have a VM ink set so I don't think there's any way to use
it .  I've been in contact the gimp-print people so we'll see
how that goes.  

Roy

> 
> - Keith

Steve,

The quality of the printouts is hard to judge.  I only printed the 
testimage and it was very light (with MIS-VM inkset, and Quadtones set as 
ink).  I'm not sure which version, whatever came with Mandrake 9.0.

Once I get my 802.11b link going (who knew that there were 3 or more 
"versions" of the Linksys WUSB11, only one of which is linux-compatible), 
I'll move to the development version.

- Keith