[argyllcms] Re: Printer advice

On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Lars Tore Gustavsen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Geert Janssens <info@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I got no replies to my question so far. Maybe it was a poorly formulated.
> >
> > I'll try again:
> > I am about to buy a new printer. It should be capable of printing both
> > great photo's as general office work.
> >
> > Since this list is about colour management, I am mostly interested in
> > your experiences in printing photo's.
>
> I think people can live with this OT questions. It's not so much
> traffic over here.
>
> I don't know any of your listed printers, but I would point out one
> thing. Choose a printer that have an option for turning color
> correction off in the driver. At least gutenprint have that
> possibility. It's named uncorrected, raw or density color correction
> in the drop down list. I have also heard rumor about color profiles
> support in a coming turboprint version. I don't think the hplip driver
> have this possibility.
> And since this is the argyllcms list. What about an epson r1800?
> Graeme Gill have create a printing system for it. It is also well
> supported by gutenprint.
>
> Regards
> Lars Tore Gustavsen

Good point... I test-installed the hplip printer driver for the HP Photosmart 
Pro 8300 (didn't find the driver for the 8850 in my current distro). There 
was no driver configuration option that suggested the possibility to disable 
(automatic) color correction. Either the hplip driver does no color 
correction by itself, or it's not possible to turn it off... Since I haven't 
found an answer to this question via google, I've inquired with the hplip 
team:
https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/36564
I'll post a followup when I get a sensible answer.

I also looked at the gutenprint driver's settings. As you mention, there is an 
option to disable color correction. It was set to "default" in my system.
Just for reference to others interested (I had to look this up also in the 
gutenprint documentation): "Default" means that the color correction mode is 
selected based on the type of document being printed. So indeed for color 
managed workflows, this should be set to "Uncorrected" as the manual 
suggests.

For now I still hesitate to buy an epson printer again. The print quality is 
outstanding, but routine maintenance is a nightmare in my setup: I can't get 
any maintenance tool (such as escputil or one of it's frontends) to 
communicate with the printer over the network. So I don't know the ink 
levels, I can't easily perform head cleaning or nozzle checks,...

I am trying to get more information on this from the gutenprint mailinglist, 
but until now, I don't get much response.

Maintenance on a networked HP printer is no problem, but if I can't get a 
definitive answer on the color correction option, I'm pretty stuck there as 
well...

To be continued...

Geert

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