Hi Peter, Thank you very much for your detailed comments, and also for the excellent littlecms docs which I had studied already and which were very helpful.
Please see the comments that I added to parts of your reply: > If you are using a simple inkjet, the other way is to forget > printer profiles stay in a RGB workflow. Keep your images in > RGB and use the GIMP print drivers to adjust printer output to > the screen. This is why the GIMP drivers were built in the > first place. My particular problem with gimp-print -- which I appreciate very much indeed -- is that I'm not using OEM inks, but pigmented Generations4 in a continuous ink flow system on my Epson 1270, along with with non-standard papers. I've already tried playing around with the adjustments in gimp-print, but didn't get good results. That's why I don't see any other solutions but output measuring devices. > > For now I'm working on a Linux-only machine. Is there a > > possibility to get proper printer profiles without getting > > into Windows? > > Almost.. Marti Maria has done a great job with littlecms. It > has improved greatly in the last couple of versions. I think > he is trying to add a printer profiler in the next version of > littlecms. Yes, the littlecms is just great! But a printer profiler would still require either measuring hardware that works under Linux or a Windows-built profile... Through a reply to another posting I found out about someone who uses Profile Prism and Picture Window Pro (for Windows) together with WINE and gimp-print, if this might be of interest: http://www.salgarelli.com/technical/ldd/printing.php Christoph
