QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Stephen,

Some feedback on the beta. I downloaded about a week ago, not sure if 
the current one (2.3.10.8) is somewhat newer.

In any event I am afraid to say on my system (XP, 2 gigs RAM, 2.6 GHz) 
and Epson 2100 printer it does not yet seem bulletproof.

I had a few errors with printing. For memory, my workflow is edit in PS 
CS2, resize in Qimage (with interpolation to 720 ppi) and Print to 
File, print out of QTR.

On tiffs at both around the 210 MB size as well as 335 MB (different 
output dimensions) I had assorted problems. These included the 
thumbnail showing up in the pane but the paper simply feeding through 
the printer without printing when the Print button was depressed. This 
behaviour was followed by an 'Error writing to printer' message. 
Printer panel seemed to show very slow spooling of the file.

Another error behaviour was a simple refusal to print, followed by 
an 'I/O 32 error' (or something similar).

The above two errors, to the best of my memory, could happen 
irrespective of whether I dragged and dropped the files or used Select 
Image.

Howeve, despite the above, I could always get it to agree to print 
eventually.

I'm not sure if that's very helpful to you as I know it's not a very 
systematic account. Still, my impression is that the handling is still 
a little buggy. Unlike previously where I was getting msgs about Tiff 
tags (I still got that on one occasion), the main aberrant behaviour 
now seems to be that an entire sheet is fed through the printer without 
any actual printing being done, followed by a paper feed error on the 
printer and an error message on the screen indicating a problem writing 
the file to the printer.

Best wishes,

Dave Meddings

In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Billard" <stephen@s...> wrote:
> I have finished the features of the QTRgui change over to a new TIFF 
library.
> The beta can be downloaded from www.sbillard.org/Shareware/QTRgui.htm.
>  
> I would specially like to hear from anyone who has TIFF files that 
have given
> problems in the past.
>  
> This version also improves the efficiency of using the Image/Select 
Image menu.
> Now the TIFF file is loaded only once. (It used to be loaded for the 
preview,
> then again for the thumbnail.)
>  
> -Stephen
>  www.sbillard.org/Stephen