gimpprint-inktypes(7) - Linux man page
Name
gimpprint-inktypes - Gimp-Print inkset types
Description
Gimp-Print supports many different inksets, which are printer type specific. The option names are case sensitive. Two names are listed for each resolution; the first (short) name is the inktype, and the second (long) name is descriptive. Not all ink types are supported on all printers.
Ink Types
Epson and Lexmark (other than the 4076) printers
- Six color printers can print using four color inks or all six colors. Six color mode is recommended for photographs. Four color mode may be useful when
printing text with embedded graphics to reduce ink consumption, or to print higher quality with Ordered, Fast, or Very Fast dithering (see below).
The "Composite" modes use only color inks (no black) to produce all colors and black. These ink types are rarely useful, but on certain types of paper they may produce a smoother image than that produced by mixing black ink in. The Epson Stylus Color 1500 cannot mix black ink with colored inks; on this printer, Three Color Composite must be used.
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Canon printers
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PCL (Hewlett-Packard and Lexmark 4076) color printers
- Black and white PCL printers (laser printers, in particular) do not allow any value to be specified for the ink type.
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com) and Robert Krawitz (rlk@alum.mit.edu)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This manual page was written by Roger Leigh (roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net)
- Black and white PCL printers (laser printers, in particular) do not allow any value to be specified for the ink type.
See Also
gimpprint-color(7), gimpprint-dithers(7), gimpprint-imagetypes(7), gimpprint-mediasizes(7), gimpprint-mediasources(7), gimpprint-mediatypes(7), gimpprint-models(7), gimpprint-resolutions(7).