Check out linux journal article archives...
There's a printer setup series of articles under the sys admin topic..
goes by the name of Taming the Horrors of Printers -1-6
Good luck
Bye
Kaushik
From: san_chat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, September 17, 2000 6:34 AM
> Perhaps you pointed me to the following part of the printing howto:
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>---8<----gamma.ps----8<---
>%!
>%transfer functions for cyan magenta yellow black
>{0.3 exp} {0.3 exp} {0.3 exp} {0.3 exp} setcolortransfer
>---8<------------------8<---
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>
>I had read that part before and I think that is for those whose printer
>produces dark results. But my printer produces very crisp and perfect
>printouts under Linux, just as if it is printing under windows in the
>normal mode.
>It is the * Econofast * mode that I am not been able to use.
>There must be some way to implement it using the Ghostscript commands
>but I am not at all very familiar with Ghostscript .
>Therefore what I want is a readymade Ghostscript driver for my printer
>that will do my job.
>Anyway , I will try to use the Printing Howto portion you mentioned.
>Let's see if anything happens .
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: sreangsu acharyya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > But can you use the __Econofast__ mode of your printer
> HPDeskjet
>> > 610C ) with RH 6.2 ? If yes , please tell me how do you do that .
>>
>> I have never tried this out myself, but you can approach something like
>> this by defining your own "econofast_mode". Every printer que can be
>> associated with a filter, where one can change the incoming postcript so
>> as to lighten, bias, scale....etc the postscript.
>> As far as i remember there is such an example in the Printing Howto,
>> where one corrects the skewness towards darker colours which happens
>> frequently in inkjet printers. Have a look
>> sreangsu
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