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Epson vs QTR vs Gutenprint

Epson vs QTR vs Gutenprint

2007-09-01 by Myron Gochnauer

> 1g. Re: R1800 "pure carbon" approach?
>     Posted by: "Paul Roark" paul.roark@... pr_roark
>     Date: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:16 am ((PDT))
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> All else being equal, I'd like to print from Photoshop with a standard
> driver also.  The Epson driver is also faster.  But QTR gives me the
> controls I need to get the results I like -- on lots of different  
> printers.

Is anyone using Gutenprint (formerly Gimp-print) directly to control  
the Epson R1800 to match Paul's QTR results?

On the Mac, Gutenprint seems to be more reliable than Epson drivers,  
and gives a large number of printer controls. Unfortunately, it  
doesn't yet allow ICC/ICM color profile control, but that isn't part  
of Paul's Eboni-black-only scheme for the Epson R1800.

My recollection is the QTR is built on Gimp-Print. (I don't know how  
Roy Harrington gets from the Linux-like Gimp-Print to the Windows  
version of QTR.)

Myron






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Re: [Digital BW] Epson vs QTR vs Gutenprint

2007-09-01 by Michael Ring

I am using Gutenprint (5.1.3) as my 'main' printer driver on the mac for 
my R2400.

The quality of the prints does exceed the quality of the epson driver in 
non-bw mode when working with icc-profiles created with printfix-pro 
from within Photoshop. (Why do you think that using icc-profiles is not 
possible with gutenprint?? You cannot directly use them in the printer 
driver but they work very well from within photoshop)

The DMax is not as good as with QTR (1.7 to 2.1 on various papers, the 
Sihl 4802 semigloss paper beeing the best) but linearity and resolution 
is very good both in B/W and Color. The dithering also seems finer and 
more pleasing to my eye. I also never have detected small horizontal 
lins in my prints, a problem I only had with qtr, but not with the epson 
driver or gutenprint.

The Downside of Gutenprint is, that it is veeeerrrrrrryyyyyyyyy slow 
when printing on A3+ in high resolution, but I can live with that.

Michael

Myron Gochnauer schrieb:
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>> 1g. Re: R1800 "pure carbon" approach?
>>     Posted by: "Paul Roark" paul.roark@... pr_roark
>>     Date: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:16 am ((PDT))
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>> All else being equal, I'd like to print from Photoshop with a standard
>> driver also.  The Epson driver is also faster.  But QTR gives me the
>> controls I need to get the results I like -- on lots of different  
>> printers.
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> Is anyone using Gutenprint (formerly Gimp-print) directly to control  
> the Epson R1800 to match Paul's QTR results?
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> On the Mac, Gutenprint seems to be more reliable than Epson drivers,  
> and gives a large number of printer controls. Unfortunately, it  
> doesn't yet allow ICC/ICM color profile control, but that isn't part  
> of Paul's Eboni-black-only scheme for the Epson R1800.
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> My recollection is the QTR is built on Gimp-Print. (I don't know how  
> Roy Harrington gets from the Linux-like Gimp-Print to the Windows  
> version of QTR.)
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