On Tuesday 23 September 2008 05:20:47 am Torsten Neuer wrote: > Hello, > > Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 10:36:18 schrieb Dotan Cohen: > > My printer has a stuck blue nozzle and I am trying to clean it. > > Of the blue, yellow, red, and black cartridges, I want to only > > print from the blue. I tried to configure a blue-255 colour and > > the rest 0, however the printed image still uses a bit from the > > red cartridge as the choice of colours differ from those in Gimp. > > What colour could I configure, that would translate to blue only > > from the printer? > > Printers are normally CMYK, not RGB. That is why 0000ff will also > utilize the other cartridges of the printer, not only cyan. > You will therefore have to select 100% C from CMYK colourspace in > order to only print from the C cartridge - which is a bit awkward > in Gimp, since the program has no direct CMYK support. > Nevertheless, you can do so with the colour selector (get to the > printer colour selection mode for CMYK colours). The colour will be > translated to RGB 00ffff... > > HTH > > Torsten
ImageMagick will convert from rgb to cmyk after saving the file from Gimp. If the above RGB 00ffff is used then it should convert to Cyan (not exactly blue.) -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
