Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Print quality

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

   Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 18:49:21 +0800
   From: Nick Urbanik <ni...@vt...>

   Robert L Krawitz wrote:

   > BTW, what is people's overall impression of print quality between
   > 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and the current repository?

   I installed 3.1.3 last night with Gimp 1.1.20 (with resize patch).  On our
   Stylus 440, 720 DPI microweave resulted in a strange vertical streaking.
   The picture (of our baby, of course!) is okay except for this streaking,
   which makes the printout a throw away.

What exactly does the streaking look like?  Could you put a sample on
a web site or send one to me somehow?

   720 High Quality I have never had working in any version.   Last night, on
   3.1.3, the "printing" progress meter at the bottom of the image in the Gimp
   window stopped just a millimetre or two from the end.  I'll check it out
   again soon.

720 HQ won't work.  I'm surprised you saw what you did (it should have
just confused the printer), but the weird print head on the 440 is
hard to make work.

   720 Softweave is fast, but the resolution of the image looks poor: it has
   less ink density and appears to have lost detail, but the speed is nice.

That's interesting.  The dither doesn't do anything different from 720
microweave.

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