Re: Gutenprint and CUPS
Re: Gutenprint and CUPS
- Subject: Re: Gutenprint and CUPS
- From: "Jim Mowreader" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 07:53:26 -0400
Jurgen Richter sends:
As an advanced Joe (Jurgen) user, I could see that as an option that could
be selected. If you look at some of the Adobe print menus you have the
option of printing crops and color bars, etc... and yes of course that
requires a bigger sheet. I run up to A2 size. When I need that information
the requisite paper would be used. When I have satisfactory
results from the diagnostics/test print, I would choose to turn them off
and print full sheet on the smaller paper as
needed. Sure would be nice to have that option.
Wouldn't turning off the color bars mess up the whole "closed loop" thing?
Printers drift DURING jobs, not just between them. Look at a Gandinnovations
printer. Their claim to fame is the ability to compensate for a dropped
nozzle during a print run. (Well, that and the size of the machine--the
little Gandinnovations machine has a three-meter-wide carriage.) I have two
of what in Europe is called a Mutoh Rockhopper IIK wide-format inkjet
printer--in North America it's called a Toucan LT--which is designed to stop
printing when an ink cartridge goes empty. One of these printers will allow
cartridges 2, 7, 8 and 10 to run completely out without stopping the
machine--you know it happened when the print changes colors all of a sudden.
That's the kind of thing you need a closed-loop CM that reads the image, not
color bars that got turned off, to prevent.
And going back to Adobe issues - why not have one consistent print menu
between the Suite of applications? It could
be as complex as the Acrobat one or simple as the Photoshop one. If it
were consistent, Adobe Creative Suite users
could in fact expect consistent results. Now I have to rasterize everthing
in Photoshop to get consistent output between
the applications. But then again, CUPS and Gutenprint does the same thing
(rasterize) with a different engine. I wish the
interface was simpler (as simple as the Photoshop print menu for example,
with an "expert" button that gives you
advanced options such as ink control, etc.), but I can see that with the
myriad printer/paper combinations possible, that
is not going to happen at the current "cost" of Gutenprint.
Jurgen, I'm really worried about the state of Adobe. Adobe's print dialogs
don't concern me because I never see them--I haven't printed directly from
an Adobe application in years. I either place the image in QuarkXPress and
print to a laserwriter from there, or I open the file in Onyx
ProductionHouse, which is a RIP for wide-format printing. What DOES concern
me is that a lot of the effects in Illustrator won't print correctly. Their
answer to everything is "run a PDF workflow." Well...some of those effects
won't print (right now I'm thinking Drop Shadows and Transparency) whether
the file they're in is saved as EPS or PDF. They seem to have gotten a new
product tsar who thinks everything is going online in the next six months.
Well, that's great...that's really great...last I checked, it's hard to put
the wrapper off a Snickers bar online. I am not going to read a web page
while I'm on the toilet. And I guess I'm just supposed to hang a monitor on
the side of someone's car and tell the world what a great full wrap I put on
it. "Online" has screwed just so many people. A chuckle for ya: I was
listening to the "John Boy and Billy Big Show" on the way to work this
morning, and they were discussing the guests they were going to have on the
show. One pair was described as an "Internet Sensation" by John Boy. Billy
said, "that means they're world-famous but they're not making a dime off it,
right?"
--jm
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