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| gutenprint | Alex Feldman | 18 Dec 05:11 |
| gutenprint | Jos van Kan | 18 Dec 14:43 |
| gutenprint | Alex Feldman | 18 Dec 22:31 |
| 20051218200004.304B8A65756@... | 07 Oct 20:17 | |
| gutenprint | Ronald Arvidsson | 19 Dec 20:14 |
gutenprint
I had some trouble installing gutenprint at first, but after removing everything, it went in fine.
But I haven't been able to adjust the colors on my output - and what's more, what is printer is quite a bit darker, particularly with the yellow, than the real image. What shows up in gimp on the screen is very close to the real image.
Most of the pictures I take are outdoors, and without much yellow, it isn't much of a problem. But for indoor pictures it is really noticeable - a red oak chest of draweres came out looking dark brown. The onscreen picture is fine, so I don't think it is a problem with gimp or the camera, or my choice of exposure compensation.
I have tried to adjust the sliders I get in the print dialogue in gimp, but it doesn't change anything - I have reduced the saturation to .75 and increased the brightness to 1.2, and there was no effect. Incidentally, the adjustments you can make for the output are just three sliders, brightness, contrast, and saturation. Nothing else. It is different from what is in the manual.
I am running FC3, with Gimp 2.2.8, Gutenprint 5.0.0-rc1, and an Epson Stylus Photo R1800 printer. I have updated FC3 extensively, so it may be closer to FC4 now.
Thanks very much for any suggestions.
gutenprint
Alex Feldman wrote:
I had some trouble installing gutenprint at first, but after removing everything, it went in fine.
But I haven't been able to adjust the colors on my output - and what's more, what is printer is quite a bit darker, particularly with the yellow, than the real image. What shows up in gimp on the screen is very close to the real image.
Layers>Colors>Color balance (first entry)
Experiment upping the yellow in some or all three areas (dark, medium and light) a couple of notches.
I had a comparable problem with the Epson R300 (far too blue) and it turned out that increasing magenta by 10 points in dark and medium solved the problem.
Rumor had it that there was work being done on the new Epson drivers, but so far I haven't seen results from that.
Regards,
gutenprint
I asked the following question:
I had some trouble installing gutenprint at first, but after removing everything, it went in fine.
But I haven't been able to adjust the colors on my output - and what's more, what is printer is quite a bit darker, particularly with the yellow, than the real image. What shows up in gimp on the screen is very close to the real image.
And I got a couple of helpful replys - thank you very much. One suggested that I go over to the gimp-print list and ask there. Here is the response I got from Robert Krawitz, one of the developers:
You need to set the Print Quality and Image Type settings to Manual Control in order to enable the other color controls. We're looking at changing this; it's causing too much confusion.
I haven't got it perfect yet, but this seems like the best solution, since I don't have to change the image on the disk to be "wrong" to get a print. I am hping one group of settings will work for all, or most images. Anyway, I thought I would share the response over here.
Thanks for the help.
gutenprint
I've had similar color cast problems with epson 830. I addedan extra .1 to .2 in the printer driver to correct the printed photo.
Cheers,
Ronald
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:11:34 -0700 From: Alex Feldman
Subject: [Gimp-user] gutenprint
To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID:I had some trouble installing gutenprint at first, but after removing everything, it went in fine.
But I haven't been able to adjust the colors on my output - and what's more, what is printer is quite a bit darker, particularly with the yellow, than the real image. What shows up in gimp on the screen is very close to the real image.
Most of the pictures I take are outdoors, and without much yellow, it isn't much of a problem. But for indoor pictures it is really noticeable - a red oak chest of draweres came out looking dark brown. The onscreen picture is fine, so I don't think it is a problem with gimp or the camera, or my choice of exposure compensation.
I have tried to adjust the sliders I get in the print dialogue in gimp, but it doesn't change anything - I have reduced the saturation to .75 and increased the brightness to 1.2, and there was no effect. Incidentally, the adjustments you can make for the output are just three sliders, brightness, contrast, and saturation. Nothing else. It is different from what is in the manual.
I am running FC3, with Gimp 2.2.8, Gutenprint 5.0.0-rc1, and an Epson Stylus Photo R1800 printer. I have updated FC3 extensively, so it may be closer to FC4 now.
Thanks very much for any suggestions.
