gimpprint-inktypes(7) Gimp-Print Manual Pages gimpprint-inktypes(7)
NAME
gimpprint-inktypes - Gimp-Print inkset types
DESCRIPTION
Gimp-Print supports many different inksets, which are printer type spe-
cific. The option names are case sensitive. Two names are listed for
each resolution; the first (short) name is the inktype, and the second
(long) name is descriptive. Not all ink types are supported on all
printers.
INK TYPES
Epson and Lexmark (other than the 4076) printers
Six color printers can print using four color inks or all six colors.
Six color mode is recommended for photographs. Four color mode may be
useful when printing text with embedded graphics to reduce ink consump-
tion, or to print higher quality with Ordered, Fast, or Very Fast
dithering (see below).
The "Composite" modes use only color inks (no black) to produce all
colors and black. These ink types are rarely useful, but on certain
types of paper they may produce a smoother image than that produced by
mixing black ink in. The Epson Stylus Color 1500 cannot mix black ink
with colored inks; on this printer, Three Color Composite must be used.
Ink Type Description
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Photo7 Seven Color Photo (CcMmYKk, for the
Epson Stylus Photo 2100 and 2200, and
Stylus Pro 7600 and 9600)
PhotoCMYK Six Color Photo
PhotoCMY Five Color Photo Composite
CMYK Four Color Standard
RGB Three Color Composite
Quadtone Quadtone grayscale inks (special third
party inksets designed to produce supe-
rior results for grayscale images)
Gray2 Two Level Grayscale (Kk, for the Epson
stylus Photo 2100 and 2200, and Stylus
Pro 7600 and 9600)
Canon printers
Ink Type Description
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Gray Black
RGB Color
CMYK Black/Color
PhotoCMY Photo/Color
PhotoCMYK Photo
PCL (Hewlett-Packard and Lexmark 4076) color printers
Ink Type Description
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CMYK Color + Black Cartridges
Photo Color + Photo Cartridges (For Deskjet 69x only)
Black and white PCL printers (laser printers, in particular) do not
allow any value to be specified for the ink type.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com) and Robert Krawitz
(rlk@alum.mit.edu)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This manual page was written by Roger Leigh (rleigh@debian.org)
SEE ALSO
gimpprint-color(7), gimpprint-dithers(7), gimpprint-imagetypes(7),
gimpprint-mediasizes(7), gimpprint-mediasources(7), gimpprint-medi-
atypes(7)"; } ?>, gimpprint-models(7), gimpprint-resolutions(7).
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