From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 20 11:16:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46440106564A for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:16:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (dns1.vizion2000.net [62.49.197.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05F98FC16 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4C905119C53; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:58:08 -0800 (PST) From: David Southwell Organization: Vision Communications To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:58:07 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-RELEASE; KDE/4.7.3; amd64; ; ) References: <201111190050.05726.admin@vizion2000.net> <201111200133.54033.david@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <201111200133.54033.david@vizion2000.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201111200158.08181.david@vizion2000.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com Subject: Re: epson printers on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:16:02 -0000 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, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Warren Block 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