[riscos-printing] Re: which ink? which printer? (Re: Gutenprint 5.0.0)

  • From: charles <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: riscos-printing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:18:30 +0100

In article <4e55cb7929ajg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Alan Griffin <ajg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13 Aug, Tim Hill <smartgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I am sure Canon and Epson have made improvements but it's good to see my
> > age-old decision still seems well founded but unfortunate that some
> > printer manufacturers still appear to believe in accelerating
> > obsolescence and to my astonishment people still buy Epson and Canon.

>         I have always used Canon printers, because they are so good!
> It can't be the printer that is at fault, because it produces very good
> prints with PhotoReal.

>         However, I can't adjust Photoreal to give a completely uniform
> grey scale, so I was hoping that Gimp print would be better.

>         GimpPrint is a total failure, and doesn't work with my printer,
> which must therefore be a fault with GimpPrint, not the printer!

read Martin W's suggestion.  It seems that the driver for your printer is
not ideal (British understatement).  Not GimpPrint per se, but your
application of it.

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