Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Gutenprint with IP4700

[Alvaro K. <ku...@gm...>]

I am curious about this as well, Did you use WinGP (Gutenprint Windows Port
by Dickobraz) ?

I believe it is the only Windows port available. It is quite old, circa
2010, and have not been updated.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:13 PM Protea Wines Japan <aik...@gm...>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:13 PM Nutan Schramm <nu...@ho...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello : )
>>
>> finally I managed to get GP running on Win7-64 Gimp!
>>
>> How I can use icm printerprofiles with Gutenprint. I cannot click on the
>> icm tab?
>> My Canon IP 4700 has usually 2400 dpi, with GP only 600 x 600?
>> Gimp print with the windows driver but in GP nothing happen, what is the
>> correct setting?
>>
>
> Hello Nutan,
> Thank you for your report.
> However, there is no official gutenprint ported to Windows as far as I
> know.
> So I guess you are using an unofficial and possibly old port someone else
> built?
> I would defer to others with more experience, but I would say if you are
> using Windows, use the Windows driver from Canon,
> that is the official best way to use the printer's capabilities. Drivers
> are available from Windows 2000 all the way up to Windows 10.
>
> In any case, to explain about gutenprint for future reference, the
> resolution is a "mode" not a number.
> So it is something like "600x600 DPI Standard" or "600x600 DPI HIGH
> (GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER)" for example.
> The printhead resolution is only 600x600 dpi. Multiple passes and fancy
> ink jet algorithms are used to give the appearance of a higher "effective
> resolution" which is what the manufacturers put on their brochures.
>
> Best regards,
> Gernot Hassenpflug
>
>
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