Re: epson printers on amd64
On Saturday 19 November 2011 21:27:42 Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, David Southwell wrote: Anyone up to date on how to do high quality printing with epson inkjet printers (in my case r2400 and r2880) on amd64 systems. print/pips* reports they require 386 and do not compile on amd64. print/gimp-gutenprint works pretty well from Gimp, although I have not figured out how to get consistent color and brightness. It supports both of those printers. I'm sure I'm not alone in doubting that _any_ ink-spitter is likely to produce high quality printing or consistent color and brightness, regardless of the host support used. Those printers are designed to be manufactured as inexpensively as possible so as to be sold at very low prices, the profit being in the recurring ink sales. Cheap and high quality tend to be incompatible design goals. (Sorry, I hadn't realized I was replying on -emulation, which is meant for computer emulation. CCed to -questions on this reply.) Quality color photos are the one area where inkjets really can do a good job. Experimenting with cheap Epson R200 and R280 has shown that they can print better quality photos than local photo printing places. Color and brightness are consistent until I print a different photo. Gutenprint saves the settings, it's just that they don't work the same with different photos. Possibly this is due to my changing the wrong adjustments. Oh, and I've only used Gutenprint on 32-bit systems so far. To get high quality printing with good inkjet printeres like r2400 and r2880 here are the main steps I follow: 1. Define the colour space (e.g adobe rgb 1998) to be used when the image is being captured. 2. Shoot using the correct white space setting for the scene. 3. Load onto the computer having first profiled your monitor. 4. Use your preferred editing software (e.g. photoshop) using a defined working space colour profile e.g. adobe 1998 (I prefer prophoto which is 32bit floating decimal point). 5. Convert the colour profile of the image to the working colour space. 6. Process the image. 7. When processing complete choose the paper for printing. 8. Make sure you have a suitable colour profile for that paper for your chosen printer. 9. Print using the appropriate paper profile. . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: epson printers on amd64
On Sunday 20 November 2011 01:33:53 David Southwell wrote: On Saturday 19 November 2011 21:27:42 Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, David Southwell wrote: Anyone up to date on how to do high quality printing with epson inkjet printers (in my case r2400 and r2880) on amd64 systems. print/pips* reports they require 386 and do not compile on amd64. print/gimp-gutenprint works pretty well from Gimp, although I have not figured out how to get consistent color and brightness. It supports both of those printers. I'm sure I'm not alone in doubting that _any_ ink-spitter is likely to produce high quality printing or consistent color and brightness, regardless of the host support used. Those printers are designed to be manufactured as inexpensively as possible so as to be sold at very low prices, the profit being in the recurring ink sales. Cheap and high quality tend to be incompatible design goals. (Sorry, I hadn't realized I was replying on -emulation, which is meant for computer emulation. CCed to -questions on this reply.) Quality color photos are the one area where inkjets really can do a good job. Experimenting with cheap Epson R200 and R280 has shown that they can print better quality photos than local photo printing places. Color and brightness are consistent until I print a different photo. Gutenprint saves the settings, it's just that they don't work the same with different photos. Possibly this is due to my changing the wrong adjustments. Oh, and I've only used Gutenprint on 32-bit systems so far. To get high quality printing with good inkjet printeres like r2400 and r2880 here are the main steps I follow: 1. Define the colour space (e.g adobe rgb 1998) to be used when the image is being captured. 2. Shoot using the correct white space setting for the scene. 3. Load onto the computer having first profiled your monitor. 4. Use your preferred editing software (e.g. photoshop) using a defined working space colour profile e.g. adobe 1998 (I prefer prophoto which is 32bit floating decimal point). 5. Convert the colour profile of the image to the working colour space. 6. Process the image. 7. When processing complete choose the paper for printing. 8. Make sure you have a suitable colour profile for that paper for your chosen printer. 9. Print using the appropriate paper profile. Sorry I should have mentioned that ghostscript are integrating colour profiling using icc profiles although the last time I checked there was no support for the kind of monitor profile creation devices such as those manufactured by datacolor which I use on I hate to say it MS$ systems. There is an interesting paper on Ghostscript Color Management to be found on www.artifex.com/Ghostscript_Color_Architecture.pdf david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: epson printers on amd64
On Sunday 20 November 2011 01:58:07 David Southwell wrote: On Sunday 20 November 2011 01:33:53 David Southwell wrote: On Saturday 19 November 2011 21:27:42 Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, David Southwell wrote: Anyone up to date on how to do high quality printing with epson inkjet printers (in my case r2400 and r2880) on amd64 systems. print/pips* reports they require 386 and do not compile on amd64. print/gimp-gutenprint works pretty well from Gimp, although I have not figured out how to get consistent color and brightness. It supports both of those printers. I'm sure I'm not alone in doubting that _any_ ink-spitter is likely to produce high quality printing or consistent color and brightness, regardless of the host support used. Those printers are designed to be manufactured as inexpensively as possible so as to be sold at very low prices, the profit being in the recurring ink sales. Cheap and high quality tend to be incompatible design goals. (Sorry, I hadn't realized I was replying on -emulation, which is meant for computer emulation. CCed to -questions on this reply.) Quality color photos are the one area where inkjets really can do a good job. Experimenting with cheap Epson R200 and R280 has shown that they can print better quality photos than local photo printing places. Color and brightness are consistent until I print a different photo. Gutenprint saves the settings, it's just that they don't work the same with different photos. Possibly this is due to my changing the wrong adjustments. Oh, and I've only used Gutenprint on 32-bit systems so far. To get high quality printing with good inkjet printeres like r2400 and r2880 here are the main steps I follow: 1. Define the colour space (e.g adobe rgb 1998) to be used when the image is being captured. 2. Shoot using the correct white space setting for the scene. 3. Load onto the computer having first profiled your monitor. 4. Use your preferred editing software (e.g. photoshop) using a defined working space colour profile e.g. adobe 1998 (I prefer prophoto which is 32bit floating decimal point). 5. Convert the colour profile of the image to the working colour space. 6. Process the image. 7. When processing complete choose the paper for printing. 8. Make sure you have a suitable colour profile for that paper for your chosen printer. 9. Print using the appropriate paper profile. Sorry I should have mentioned that ghostscript are integrating colour profiling using icc profiles although the last time I checked there was no support for the kind of monitor profile creation devices such as those manufactured by datacolor which I use on I hate to say it MS$ systems. There is an interesting paper on Ghostscript Color Management to be found on www.artifex.com/Ghostscript_Color_Architecture.pdf OK thanks to you guys asking some questions I have found that graphics/lprof-devel can support the creation of monitor and print profiles using Spyder 2 Spyder 3 from datacolor. I have been a bit lazy in following up my earlier interest in profiling monitors on freebsd 7.2 8.2 as I would like to reduce my reliance on MS$ and apple systems. It looks like I missed this one which is being compiled as I speak. I will try forcing a compile of the 32bit code for the epson r2400 r2880 which I am told may compile on 64bit given some work. I will report back if I finish up with a viable system. David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: epson printers on amd64
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, David Southwell wrote: Anyone up to date on how to do high quality printing with epson inkjet printers (in my case r2400 and r2880) on amd64 systems. print/pips* reports they require 386 and do not compile on amd64. print/gimp-gutenprint works pretty well from Gimp, although I have not figured out how to get consistent color and brightness. It supports both of those printers. I'm sure I'm not alone in doubting that _any_ ink-spitter is likely to produce high quality printing or consistent color and brightness, regardless of the host support used. Those printers are designed to be manufactured as inexpensively as possible so as to be sold at very low prices, the profit being in the recurring ink sales. Cheap and high quality tend to be incompatible design goals. (Sorry, I hadn't realized I was replying on -emulation, which is meant for computer emulation. CCed to -questions on this reply.) Quality color photos are the one area where inkjets really can do a good job. Experimenting with cheap Epson R200 and R280 has shown that they can print better quality photos than local photo printing places. Color and brightness are consistent until I print a different photo. Gutenprint saves the settings, it's just that they don't work the same with different photos. Possibly this is due to my changing the wrong adjustments. Oh, and I've only used Gutenprint on 32-bit systems so far. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
