From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 20 05:27:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D451065670 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:27:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658458FC14 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id pAK5Rg9P021354; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:27:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id pAK5RgP8021351; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:27:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:27:42 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: perryh@pluto.rain.com In-Reply-To: <4ec8ce86.SUQIYIhDcM4XkICl%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Message-ID: References: <201111190050.05726.admin@vizion2000.net> <4ec8ce86.SUQIYIhDcM4XkICl%perryh@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:27:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, david@vizion2000.net Subject: Re: epson printers on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:27:43 -0000 On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Warren Block wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, David Southwell wrote: >>> Anyone up to date on how to do high quality printing with >>> epson inkjet printers (in my case r2400 and r2880) on amd64 >>> systems. print/pips* reports they require 386 and do not >>> compile on amd64. >> >> print/gimp-gutenprint works pretty well from Gimp, although >> I have not figured out how to get consistent color and brightness. >> It supports both of those printers. > > I'm sure I'm not alone in doubting that _any_ ink-spitter is likely to > produce "high quality printing" or "consistent color and brightness", > regardless of the host support used. Those printers are designed to > be manufactured as inexpensively as possible so as to be sold at very > low prices, the profit being in the recurring ink sales. "Cheap" and > "high quality" tend to be incompatible design goals. (Sorry, I hadn't realized I was replying on -emulation, which is meant for computer emulation. CCed to -questions on this reply.) Quality color photos are the one area where inkjets really can do a good job. Experimenting with cheap Epson R200 and R280 has shown that they can print better quality photos than local photo printing places. Color and brightness are consistent until I print a different photo. Gutenprint saves the settings, it's just that they don't work the same with different photos. Possibly this is due to my changing the wrong adjustments. Oh, and I've only used Gutenprint on 32-bit systems so far.