Re: [Gimp-print-devel] New dither matrix

[Stephan B. <sc...@st...>]

Hi,

I have a Canon BJC8200 printer, featuring 6 colors, 1200x1200 DpI^2,
microfine droplet technology (=variable drop sizes?), and support for
a new type of paper, Photo Paper Pro.

I would be happy to test the gimp-print plugin with my printer.

So far I can produce acceptable prints using ghostscript with it's
uniprint device driver. For this purpose I made new uniprint control
files (*.upp) for the BJC8200. They are available at

http://www.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~scb/uniprint

and are also included in (Aladin) ghostscript >=6.21.

The gimp prints well with my printer when using ghostscript and the
right *.upp files. When looking at the source code of the gimp print
plugin (version 3.1.4), I noticed that support for printing directly
(not via ghostscript) to Canon printers is being prepared, but the
BJC8200 model doesn't seem to be working yet. As said above, I could
assist in the development as tester.

Regards,

Stephan Buchert