Am Sonntag, 1. April 2018, 22:26:50 CEST schrieb Michael Below: > Hi, Hello,
> > I am looking at inkjet printers to print photos from darktable on > Debian Linux. Any recommendations? Not really. Just my decision. Looking for a family 'friendly' printer with low ink costs I decided to go for a Epson EcoTank 7700 two months ago. It is quite costly, but has a second ink bottle set with 5 colors included. A spare waste ink tank is also in the package. Espon had not the highest reputation for me, because of the waste ink tank and the integrated software counter (planned obsolescence). Of course you can find replacement tanks, tutorials and counter reseting software online, but it is not forseen by Epson for cheap printers that customers maintain the printer by themself. I liked the idea of refillable and replaceable wast ink tanks much more. If this will ever pay off, I will see in 3 to 5 years. But that is a personal decision. > > 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? The interesting thing is that the internet is very silent, if you ask for Epson and Linux (some Ubuntu page and Epson themself pop up mostly). Anyway, after installing the drivers from Epson on Debian 9, CUPS detects the printer connected to the WLAN correctly and the printer just works. I guess that's why there is not much you can write about. As already mentioned by David there are not so many settings to change, but I don't know what to change ATM. The driver comes with a set of paper presets from Epson and a set of sizes. darktable's print mode picks them up from CUPS (see attachments). darktable doesn't seem to respect the country seetings, because some formats are given in inches. There also is no separate switch for borderless printing. To get borderless prints you need to chose formats like "4X6FULL" for borderless 10x15 cm prints. There is also not option the select different resolutions. It is not worth to talk about the "Epson printer utility". You can see ink levels, print a test sheet to check for cleaning and start the head cleaning remotely. > 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 can't really answer this, but the prints look surprisingly good with the cheapest Semigloss Canon paper and Epson Semigloss. There is a difference in quality on the same paper between Semigloss Standard and Semigloss High. High seems to print with higher resolution (slower) and slightly different colors. So maybe there are some different color profiles in action. For my monitor I made a profile with the Color Munik Photo some time ago. If compared side-by-side the prints look slightly yellowish. This is not the case for prints I order from saal digital. But compared to cheap print services, which do not consider embedded profiles, the prints are much more acceptable. But no matter what printer, driver and paper you will select, calibration for your setup will be mandatory (see darktable manual). BTW darktable printing mode relies on CUPS. So I guess it will not work with others like Turboprint? > 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. > OT: What doesn't work in my case is the integrated scanner with iscan over WLAN. The device is not detected and playing with different config settings in saned does solved the issue. I haven not tried scanning over USB. Maybe it works. The demo version of Vuescan detects the scanner over WLAN fine. Vuescan seems to have even more features than the Epson scan utility I installed in a virtual Windows machine for scanning. > Cheers > Michael Ciao, Christian > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
