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Does anyone else have an Epson Stylus Photo 700/EX printer (the original Photo should also work, but the newer ones won't)? I've been holed up in my basement for a good part of the past 4 months or so working on a driver (actually, enhancing the Gimp's print plugin) for this printer. I have a few testers, but it's gotten to the point of being good enough (IMNSHO) so that I'd like to get it broader testing exposure. It requires the Gimp version 1.1.13 (probably older 1.1 versions will work, but it's known that 1.0 doesn't). The source is available on http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/print-3.0.1.tar.gz if anyone would like to give it a try. (My wife allowed, upon seeing one of our wedding photos printed out yesterday, that it's possible that all the time I've put into it may actually be wrth it.) If you want to try it, I recommend starting with settings in the general range of: Brightness 120 Gamma 1.2 Saturation 1.3 Density 1.2 Green & blue slightly less than 100 (close to 100 if you use Epson inks; more like blue 89-93 and green 95-97 for the third party inks I've tried). It certainly isn't perfect -- the dithering algorithm is basically a slightly modified error diffusion, and the soft weaving isn't ideal -- but if you have one of these printers, you may want to give this a try. I've made other generic improvements (16-bit rather than 8-bit color, and additional controls in particular) that should help other printers too, but I don't have any other Epson or HP printers to test this on. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf at uunet.uu.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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