Digital BW, The Print

Hi All;

I just got an email back from Mike Chaney, the author of Qimage; I 
offered to out a wish-list of features together to make his app more 
useful to B&W printers. He replied he'd be willing to seriously 
consider any feature additions we might suggest, so I hope those of 
you who are using Qimage will give it some thought and mail me any 
suggestions you may have. I'll forward them on, & we'll see what 
comes of it. I'd like to get the ball rolling by putting .psd file 
compatiblity on the list for starters. I find it very annoying to 
have to convert to .tif files, though when I want the best quality I 
can get, I go to the trouble.

Looking forward to hearing your suggestions

Steve Karafyllakis

http://www.stevekphoto.com

How about ICC profiles through his Profile Prism for B&W printers?  
The latest version 4.08 is the best yet for color and, amazingly, 
it's scanner based.  I wonder if he set his mind to B&W what he'd 
come up with?

Tom Husband

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Husband" 
<thusband@s...> wrote:
> How about ICC profiles through his Profile Prism for B&W 
printers?  
> The latest version 4.08 is the best yet for color and, amazingly, 
> it's scanner based.  I wonder if he set his mind to B&W what he'd 
> come up with?
> 
> Tom Husband

Hmmm... I'm confused, don't know Profile Prism at all. Its a color 
profiling app right? You're suggesting he make that capable of 
generating greyscale ICCs like the new Cone system, and then using 
them in Qimage? Sounds interesting!

Steve Karafyllakis

> Hmmm... I'm confused, don't know Profile Prism at all. Its a color 
> profiling app right? You're suggesting he make that capable of 
> generating greyscale ICCs like the new Cone system, and then using 
> them in Qimage? Sounds interesting!
> 
> Steve Karafyllakis

Yes, that's it exactly.  I've used PP early on when it was finding 
it's way.  Mike Chaney would not give up and today it's a great 
piece of work.  I think there're real possibilities for a grayscale 
version.  Perhaps with the ability to tweak the results?  I bet Mike 
could do something every bit as good as the new Cone System and 
probably at a very reasonable price too.

Tom Husband

> 
>  Mike Chaney would not give up and today it's a great 
> piece of work.  I think there're real possibilities for a grayscale 
> version.  Perhaps with the ability to tweak the results?  I bet 
Mike 
> could do something every bit as good as the new Cone System and 
> probably at a very reasonable price too.

How does one create an ICC profile with Profile Prism for a film 
scanner?

Don Bryant

> How does one create an ICC profile with Profile Prism for a film 
> scanner?
> 
> Don Bryant

I've only used it to profile a printer.  I believe it's capable of 
profiling a scanner though.  Here's the site:

http://www.ddisoftware.com/prism/

Tom Husband

Steve, you can add my vote for Qimage .psd compatibility. The 
imcompatibility is a well kept secret until after the program is paid 
for and a waste of effort learning the odd interface if it won't work 
with psd files. Emails to qimage just blaim photoshop. I get image 
read errors on a third of all images. There is no point advertising 
superior image handling and enlargement, if it won't handle the image 
in the first place.
I posted a question about this on the adobe photoshop forum and got a 
reply from a user who said he had no problem with files saved 
as .psd? So what is going on?
John White

> I posted a question about this on the adobe photoshop forum and 
got a 
> reply from a user who said he had no problem with files saved 
> as .psd? So what is going on?
> John White

I use Qimage all the time with psd files.  No issues.  Photoshop 
r7.01, qimage 2003.210.  Never in 3 years have I had an issue with 
qimage and photoshop.

I'm love for Mike to take on the B&W profiling issue with prism....

Rob

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "wharfwalker" 
<jswhite@f...> wrote:
> Steve, you can add my vote for Qimage .psd compatibility. The 
> imcompatibility is a well kept secret until after the program is 
paid 
> for and a waste of effort learning the odd interface if it won't 
work 
> with psd files. Emails to qimage just blaim photoshop. I get image 
> read errors on a third of all images. There is no point 
advertising 
> superior image handling and enlargement, if it won't handle the 
image 
> in the first place.
> I posted a question about this on the adobe photoshop forum and 
got a 
> reply from a user who said he had no problem with files saved 
> as .psd? So what is going on?
> John White

John; 

almost all of my .psd files are layered; I haven't  had a chance to 
see if it will read flattened .psd files, have you checked that? I 
get read error mesasages too..

Steve

Steve,
I tried many things but the results are so unpredictable there is no 
solution in them. I flattened layers and sometimes it would read 
sometimes not. 
However, I have printed a couple of b&w straight from it and found it 
worth pursuing, if it would just be more consistent. If it is 
not .psd I don't know what it is. The person who had had no problems 
with psd (who answered my PS forum question)also used XP on a PC so 
the platform cannot be to blame either. 
The fact that qimage doesn't specifically claim psd compatibility 
suggests that it is the program, 
John