Re: New Printer Specs
Re: New Printer Specs
- Subject: Re: New Printer Specs
- From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:48:18 +0100
This is a problem which gets discussed and discussed. The Gutenprint
guys have created a functionnally excellent object, but they don't
want to go to the bother of exposing the customisation settings in a
way which the CMS community can deal with, partly because they don't
quite understand what we need. Although I guess we could put a bounty
on the features, or have somebody hire a programmer to add them - for
a large enterprise running proofers it might make economic sense to do
so.
Yes, Gutenprint could become a real winner in the number of users out
there, but I think it's just not going to happen - I think it
marginally more likely in fact that some third party RIP maker may end
up open sourcing their RIP.
Edmund
Running Gutenprint on a Mac does let you do both - it is a RIP sort of
printer driver along with many drop-down options that do let you set
densities and ink limits. The big problem is no one has publicly posted
any settings that are proven to work in any particular combination; and
the fathers of Gutenprint are not savvy in color managed printing
workflow. I truly wish they were, as that could make that driver a
powerful and still free, alternative to commercial RIPs, as it's built
into OSX.4 as an Apple default. The combinations of settings is just
astronomical.
Jurgen Richter
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