> - Printing quality is very good. However, colours are not as brilliant > as on screen,
Well, you're comparing glowing phosphors (additive) with light reflected from a surface (subtractive)... The ink levels reported by escputil aren't always immediately accurate. Sometimes just turning the printer on consumes 2% of some colours, sometimes turning it on costs nothing. I guess the printer forces head cleans every so often. I have also printed full-colour pages with (supposedly) no ink consumption, especially after turning on the printer consumed 2%. Perhaps it also has to do with exactly when and how often the printer samples the ink level, and/or writes it into the cartdridge chip. Now if cups would only do accounting for ink rather than for pages... > - If you have a faster machine, all the processing will be quicker. On a PIII-450 with 512M RAM the processing of a large bitmap -> postscript -> printer binary data takes no more than a minute. Negligible compared with the printing time. Turboprint seems to prefer bidirectional printing except for the ultra-high quality, it's considerably faster and I can't spot a difference in quality. Might pay to switch gs-stp from swuni to sw (don't know anything about gimp-print). > many printers. Epson is well-covered. However, Epson itself does not > publicly support Linux. HP does -> hp.sourceforge.net We're talking about HP and *printer* support, right? > - After printing several different photos, I found the following > settings to be good for me (on Kodak Inkjet Paper): Brightness 1.15, > Contrast 0.9, Magenta 0.93, Yellow 0.96 - all others unchanged. What smart scheme can we drum up to find out systematically what colour adjusting we should use? > Now let's see where to get decent ink to refill, and figure out how to > circumvent this chip-on-cartridge trick... There used to be this brilliantly engineered ink level restore system (ILRS) from Jettec (a UK company), which uses a little programmer to reprogram the chip to "full" after breaking it off an empty Epson cartridge and putting it onto a Jettec cartridge. Then Epson changed their chips... but I managed to modify the programmer so that it can program the new Epson chips. However Jettec discontinued the ILRS and chipless Jettec cartridges are no longer available. Instead, Jettec cartrdiges now come with chips, and noticably higher price tags. http://www.consumables.co.nz/ sells the Jettec ones for about 3/4 of the price for which I can get Epson ones. Jettec doesn't make claims about colour fastness, so I expect it to be less than Epson's. Also, the colour balance is ever so slightly different. For playing around it's certainly good enough. I wouldn't expect too many colour differences in the black ink. > - AFPL Ghostscript 7.04 puts some object files into the wrong > directory. But after manually moving them to the right place, > it compiles all right with --with-ijs set. Why didn't you just install the ghostscript 7.05 package for your distribution? It's been GPL for months now. > - I still have to configure IJS. What's that? (Excuse ignorance) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
