John P. Looney wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:25:29AM +0100, Dave Neary mentioned:
>>>To be honest most printers aren't up to it. If yours is you're lucky :)
>>If you have a 6-color printer, then photos should look OK (with settings
>>for gimp-print something like Adaptive Hybrid dithering, 1440x720 dpi,
>>set colour adjustments to taste). I know people who swear by photoshop
>>for this type of stuff (sick, huh?).
>>>> It's a five colour printer. I've seen some of the things it does do, and
>they look really good. But I can't reproduce it.
>Dunno if you're already using CUPS - but if you aren't, I'd suggest
upgrading to it -
it integrates with GIMP-Print Epson rasterizers particularly well, and
produces much
better quality outputs on my Epson SC 640 than the old lpd/gs system.
See http://www.cups.org/
You need to first install CUPS, then compile the gimp-print sources with
support for CUPS.
Turboprint is a commercial option that's a port of an Amiga printer
driver subsystem to linux.
It's supposed to integrate with CUPS in the July 23rd release.
In my experience, it produces very high quality output for
photo-printing, better than Epson's own
drivers on Win32, but it costs money :-).
See http://www.turboprint.de/
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