GIMPPRINT-INKTYPES(7)Gimp-Print Manual PagesGIMPPRINT-INKTYPES(7)NAMEgimpprint-inktypes - Gimp-Print inkset types
DESCRIPTION
Gimp-Print supports many different inksets, which are
printer type specific. The option names are case sensi-
tive. 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 pho-
tographs. Four color mode may be useful when printing
text with embedded graphics to reduce ink consumption, 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 col-
ored 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 particu-
lar) 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 (roger@whin-
latter.uklinux.net)
SEE ALSOgimpprint-color(7), gimpprint-dithers(7), gimpprint-
imagetypes(7), gimpprint-mediasizes(7), gimpprint-media-
sources(7), gimpprint-mediatypes(7), gimpprint-models(7),
gimpprint-resolutions(7).
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