Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "johngeyles" 
<jge@c...> wrote:
> I have downloaded OPM (from bowhaus.com) and started to try it,
> with a feeling of great optimism that it is the silver bullet
> that will yeild great B&W prints on my Epson 2200.  I've got a
> few simple questions.
>
> 
> (2) There seems to be no way to switch between landscape and
> protrait orientations of the image on the paper.  It appears one
> must rotate a landscape-mode image 90-degrees in one's photoeditor
> and save it out before opening in OPM.  Is this rigth ?

Yes that's right. Mildly irritating, but it's a small price to pay to 
be able to control the color tinting of your prints, in my opinion.
> 
> (3) When using the up/down arrows for "scale", if you push the
scale 
> UP to where the image is too big for the page, the arrows seem to
> freeze in this weird mode where it toggles between two scales and
> you can't get it to go back down below 100% (ok, this is more a
> bug report than a question).

Yeah, this does happen, so for example, when I open an image that's 
20x24 in its original image size, and I'm planning to print on 13x19 
paper, I have to put the paper size up to 24x36, then shrink the
image 
down to below 13x19, then put the paper sixe back to 13x19. Takes
less 
than five seconds, so no biggie.
> 
> (4) The download only had 2 profiles for the 2200; "warm" and "cold"
> for EAM/EEM paper.  How soon will add'l profiles be available
> (especially for the inksets everyone seems to think MIS will
> be supplying soon) ?

You'd have to check with Bowhaus, or maybe Antonis will know, but the 
thing is if Bowhaus keeps providing free profiles, then no-one will 
ever buy the software! In the meantime I get fantastic 
chocolatey-sepia prints using a custom profile with the OPM/IJC on the 
2200, but unfortunately have to spend a small fortune with the 
Ultrachrome Inks to do so. The interesting thing is tha absolutely 
tiny amount of Light Magenta and Yellow I use to tone the prints.

Nick

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