Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Recommendations for fast, high quality printer?

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:47:33 +0100
   From: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cp...@de...>

   Anyway, to come the point...  I've tried gimp-print 3.1.2 with an
   Epson Stylus Photo 700 borrowed from a friend and was pretty impressed
   with the results.  A few months ago, I tried to write an ESC/P2 driver
   myself, starting with ppmquant and adding ESC/P2 output and tweaking as
   best I could.  I managed to get output that was a bit better than with
   ghostscript, but still far worse than the windows drivers (which is why
   I then went off to consider continuous-tone printers).  I also hadn't
   been able to find any Epson documentation later then december 1997,
   so didn't know how to get 1440dpi working.

http://www.ercipd.com/isv/edr_docs.htm is the documentation we've been
using.

   Does anyone here have a Stylus Photo 870?  Is it any good?  Does
   gimp-print drive it OK?  If you've tried printing a full A4 or A5 photo,
   how long does it take?

I doubt that gimp-print supports it very well yet.  The 750 driver
(which itself isn't tuned yet) *might* work with the 870, or it might
not.

   Even if gimp-print doesn't take full advantage of the SP 870, if it
   drives it reasonably well I'll probably get one anyway and then see if
   I can help improve gimp-print.

Hopefully we'll be able to make progress on this over the next several
months.

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