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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Harrington QuadTone RIP

2003-04-01 by Carl Schofield

On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 06:46  PM, Roy Harrington wrote:
> The speed of printing is totally a function of the gimp-print
> drivers.   The drivers for the 1160 have 3 different modes for
> 1440x720 printing (Bidirectional, Unidirectional, and Highest
> Quality).  I've mostly used HQ setting and it's probably the
> slowest, I imagine bidirectional (the first one in the list)
> would be faster.  Also there are quite a few 720x720 modes
> which may give good enough results.
>
> Since InkJet Control also uses gimp-print based drivers I
> wonder if anyone using that could comment on speed of
> printing there.
>
> Roy

Roy,

OPM seems to print faster (single pass mode) than Gimp-print at Highest 
Quality, but I haven't done any timings.  OPM only offers two printing 
resolution options:  Single Pass and Multi Pass.

Carl

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