> result. The support for Canon is improving; some printers have all the > resolutions supported, but six colour support is still missing.
Didn't know it was that bad. For Linux and photos and Canon, that means it's turboprint or nothing. I prefer !Canon. > You do not need to go through ghostscript when using gimp-print. Unless I print a postscript file? > future. Most distros are going towards Cups as the printing support, which > has its own postscript-to-raster part It has its own postscript interpreter? Is that sensible? Turboprint calls ghostscript, I bet for the postscript interpretation, but then does its own monkeying^H^H^H^H^Htransformations on the raster output from ghostscript before sending to the printer (well sending to cups to send to printer). > If it's photos you're after, then printing directly from gimp is the best > way. The gimp print plugin uses the gimp-print library directly, again > avoiding any postscript in the middle. I never thought the postscript in the middle was a problem. The slowest piece in the chain is the printer anyway... > I agree with the photo quality inkjet paper being great. It also gives very > similar colours to the photo glossy paper (but not the premium glossy > paper), which is useful for checking colours. The heavyweight matt paper is > a good paper too, but a different kettle of fish again. Initial results witht e archival matte paper are that it doesn't seem to go so well with the dye-based inks. It's made for the pigment ink printers. I have seen excellent results from others on some Ilford satin or matte paper (from Epson 8xx printers). > I have done calibration of inks and papers. It doesn't take too long when > you know your way around the source code. Cool! Me thinks 'm gonna have to give you a vist. > Although I have never used my printer with windows for comparison, the > gimp-print team have had messages back with comments like "the best output > from gimp-print is slightly better than the best output from windows". Good to hear. As that was a statement about the top point, what about the average? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
