* Michael Below <[email protected]> [04-01-18 16:28]: > Hi, > > I am looking at inkjet printers to print photos from darktable on > Debian Linux. Any recommendations? > > The Epson XP-15000 looks good (A3+, networked, ca. 300 € in DE, main > drawback probably expensive dye ink, which seems typical for the price > range). But it seems to be too fresh for CUPS/Openprinting/Turboprint > support. Epson says it is supported on Linux in its "ESC/P-R Driver 2 > (generic driver)" and the "Epson printer utility". > > Any experiences with this generic Epson driver/utility? Are there other > solutions? Is there support for color profiles, a) for Epson inks and > papers b) for third party papers, e.g. Canson Baryta? > > I would like to avoid having to buy further hardware for profiling, > sending a few prints off for profiling makes probably more sense for a > start, if there are no "sensible defaults" available.
I used epson for quite a while, but hp provides hplip drivers for *most* of their printers, and the print heads are part of the ink cartridges. I am currently using the 8600 Officejet Pro series and everything works. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
