New Pictorico Ultra OHP

Ron-san said:

Wow-- Thanks for posting the 3800 vs 4800 dot structure comparison. I wonder if this printer (the 3800) will be able to print no-compromise negs for silver gelatin using Pictorico OHP?? I hope someone will try soon and let us know. Unfortunately for me, Epson took a seemingly great machine and screwed up the user interface once again by omitting a roll feed feature. Maybe they will get it right on the next model. Cheers, Ron-san

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Don Bryant said:

Of course another question is, 'How will RIPS like QTR be able to support the new dot pattern?'

Don Bryant

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wiz said:

And the short answer is that they won't.

RIPS use their own dithering pattern. QTR uses our GIMP Print as its ditherer, so it supports whatever patterns the Gimp print developers care to use. Roy Harrington uses an ancient version of Gimp Print, 4.3 from 2002. The 5.0 version (now called GutenPrint) is a total rewrite, a lot more sophisticated, and considerably less grainy, but switching QTR to GP5 would require making entirely new curves. GRIP uses 5.0, but it's not ready for prime time yet. (And I think the name is going to change to WIZ RIP before the beta goes out).

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Ron-san said:

Wiz--Are you implying that a new version of QTR is in the works? What will WIZ RIP be? An improved driver like QTR that we can use to make our profiles and negs with? Ron-san

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