Digital BW, The Print

On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 09:48  AM, David M. dorn wrote:

> This week end I installed QuadTone  RIP, Gimp-Print and Ghostscrip as
> instructed on Roy Harrington's website.  As of now I can not get the
> Epson 2200 cool and warm profiles to show up in the appropriate dialog
> box on the "Print" screen.
>
> I have checked  (as root)  the path usr/share/cup/quadtone/2200 and the
> two text files show up there.  I named the printer "QUADTONE2200" per
> the instructions amd the two curve files have the printer name
> QUADTONE2200.
>
> I can print both as a Gimp 2200 printer and as a QUADTONE2200 printer.
> I just can't select the two curves in when trying to use QuadTone RIP.
>
> I have installed and uninstalled printers several time.  I am using the
> last version of Epson's driver which included the upgrade for roll
> page, borderless  printing etc.  Should I uninstall the "Epson 2200"
> printer?
>
> As Yul Brenner sang in the King and I , 'tis a puzzlement".
>
> Thank for any help you can give.
>
> David
>
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> David,
> 
> Did you install the profiles with Run-Quad-Profile and if yes do they  
> show up in the CurveDropBox folder with a .quad suffix?  When you  
> re-named the printer in the profile descriptor files did you make sure  
> that there are no spaces or special characters (should look like this  
> if you re-named the printer: PRINTER=QUADTONE2200)?  Does your  
> QUADTONE2200 printer appear in the Printers folder, inside the  
> CurveDesign folder?  Did you copy the CurveDesign folder to your hard  
> drive and do the profile installation there?  You do not have to  
> uninstall the Epson printers in Print Center.
> 
> Carl

On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 10:36  PM, davedeect wrote:

>  Carl,
>
> Thanks for yur help and prompt response.
>
> The Epson 22200 curves are now installed and appear as they should in 
> the print set
> up screen.  I printed one print this evening and all seems to be 
> working.
>
> The installation problem turned out to be something with the Install 
> Quad profile
> scrip running in terminal.  This was my  first time under the hood in 
> OS X other than
> using Emacs or Pico to edit a file.  I noted that when I ran the 
> Install script program
> terminal opened but after I dropped the profile txt files and hit 
> enter only the text
> files themselves were in the Curve Drop Box.  At no time  was I asked 
> for a password.
> On my last try, I brought up terminal and first logged in, left 
> terminal open and then
> ran the install script....I dropped the cool/warm txt files and the 
> profiles were
> properly installed.   Maybe this is a pecularity of OS X, but since I 
> login on startup it
> seems I should not have to login again in terminal.  I did all this as 
> administrator
> under my user login not as root.
>
> Maybe this wll help someone else.
>
> One last question.  In the first Print with Preview screen in PS, 
> should I seclect Output
> or Color Managment and if Color Management what are the recommended 
> Source
> Space and Print Space settngs for the grayscale image file and Epson 
> Enhanced Matte
> Paper?
>
> Again many thanks for your help and a tip of my hat to you and Roy!
>
> David
>
>
> Carl Schofield <scho@m...> wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> Did you install the profiles with Run-Quad-Profile and if yes do they
>> show up in the CurveDropBox folder with a .quad suffix?  When you
>> re-named the printer in the profile descriptor files did you make sure
>> that there are no spaces or special characters (should look like this
>> if you re-named the printer: PRINTER=QUADTONE2200)?  Does your
>> QUADTONE2200 printer appear in the Printers folder, inside the
>> CurveDesign folder?  Did you copy the CurveDesign folder to your hard
>> drive and do the profile installation there?  You do not have to
>> uninstall the Epson printers in Print Center.
>>
>> Carl