Digital BW, The Print

I am interested in the additional control that Quadtone Rip would
give me with my Epson 3000, but I wonder about OS X and a serial
printer port.
Has anyone had experience with this combination of
printer and software? Any suggestions on a PCI or USB adapter to
connect to the 3000? Would QTRip work with the Epson ethernet card in
the 3000?

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
Mark Stracke

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Stracke" 
<markastracke@y...> wrote:
> I am interested in the additional control that Quadtone Rip would
> give me with my Epson 3000, but I wonder about OS X and a serial
> printer port.
> Has anyone had experience with this combination of
> printer and software? Any suggestions on a PCI or USB adapter to
> connect to the 3000? Would QTRip work with the Epson ethernet card 
in
> the 3000?
> 
> Any advice would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Mark Stracke

HAving just finished up tuning QTR 2 for my epson 2200, I am about to
run it on my 3000 as well. 
I have tried it briefly, hooking it up to my windows machine and use 
it via samba. 
Or, you can buy a cheapish print server device, between 40 and 100 
USD.
I currently have Piezotone Selenium inks in my 3000. Ig enerally 
print /w piezography software. I want to use a variable mix set 
though, possibly something from MIS Inks, maye ultratones.
I decided to try a print using the piezo ink, but via my mac and gimp 
print.
I installed, ESP GHostscript 7.05.06, cups 1.19x and QTR 2.0
After configuring an ink file for the piezotones, I tried a print.
Wow, significantly better dither than the epson driver alone.
Frank

A very easy combination to work with. Don't bother with all those
fancy cards, get the Epson parallel to usb converter. Your done.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Stracke"
<markastracke@y...> wrote:

> I am interested in the additional control that Quadtone Rip would
> give me with my Epson 3000, but I wonder about OS X and a serial
> printer port.
> Has anyone had experience with this combination of
> printer and software? Any suggestions on a PCI or USB adapter to
> connect to the 3000? Would QTRip work with the Epson ethernet card in
> the 3000?
> 
> Any advice would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Mark Stracke