Linux Photo Printer Support? 8
Bryan Andersen asks: "I'm needing to replace my color printer; mine has died and isn't worth repairing. I'm heavily into digital photography and wish to be able to produce high quality prints for display without having to use Windows or send the printing out. I realize I could either go to copy centers or online photo printing services, but I'd like to be able to tune my colors, etc. I'm quite knowlegable in photographic technique from both the camera and darkroom ends. From what I've read so far I can either spend many dollars on a color Postscript printer and have almost garanteed support through its internal PS support and lose a bit in output quality or I can spend less and use Ghostscript but deciphering which printers are supported well is next to impossible. I'd find a printer that uses archive quality inks with separate ink tanks for each color if possible. I'd also prefer to get a 6 or 7 color printer. What are known working setups? How good is the print quality? Are any of the larger format printers supported? Being able to print an 11"x14" image or larger would be nice."
EPSON (Score:1)
I recently bought an Epson Stylus Color 880. I use it with gimp-print (very nice print plugin for gimp letting you choose the sort of paper, the resolution and other things just like under windows) and it gives fantastatic results. Of course like all the cheaper photo quality printers you need patience, a photo of the size of German DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm) needs about 15-20 Minutes.
I read in the docs that EPSON was very supportive to the guys from gimp-print and supplied them with docs. I recently read the same about EPSON scanners, giving out even not-yet-published docs. So EPSON seems to be very nice to the linux community, so give them back and buy EPSON! Show the other manufacturers that open support for linux can be very good for their revenue stream.
Epson good and bad. (Score:1)
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gimp-print: excellent quality for many printers. (Score:1)
As a small contributor and regular user of the gimp-print printer drivers, I have to say you _can_ get excellent photo quality output out of commodity inkjets from Linux.
gimp-print integrates not only with The Gimp, but also with ghostscript and CUPS, so you can use it for everyday printing.
It has support for Epson, HP, Lexmark, Canon and other printers.
I have an Epson Stylus Photo 870, and it works great with this reasonably priced model.
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HP announces improved printer support - Spring2001 (Score:1)
One word. EPSON (Score:2)
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Most of the medium format Styli, including the Photo 1270, (a 13x19 format CMYKcm printer), and the Stylus Colors 1520 and 3000 (both 17x22 CMYK printers) are supported well. The Epson 2000P has preliminary support only; it doesn't work well yet. The large format printers (the 5000, 7000, 7500, 9000, 9500, etc) are not supported, although the 7500 may work soon. Good luck!
Re:One word. EPSON (Score:1)
Warning with Epson printers... (Score:1)
I have an Epson Stylus Photo 750, but I'm using it under Win2k, not Linux.
My Epson Photo 1270 Prints Great (Score:1)