On 24-Mar-01 Jim Ford wrote:
> Any tips or urls on matching the colour on the screen to the printed
> result, please? From what I've read, there's a technique in Photoshop
> to do this, but I'm not aware of any for Linux utilities.
> The match between the original and what is displayed on the sreen is
> pretty accurate on my setup, but the printed result isn't. I'm using a
> HP890C and an Epson Stlus 600.
>
> Are there any printers that give particularly good results?
Here's some doc about adding gamma options.
It's not very hard. But if it doesn't work right the first time, testing
different settings can cost a lot of ink.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/ghostscript.html#GS-TUNING-ST
UFF
In this document the gamma is to 0.3, but if i remember correctly i used
gamma of 0.7 or somewhere close (I have an Epson 670).
If you use printtool to set up your printing, you can set extra gs
options. All you need to do with that is point to the file which contains
lines like:
%!
%transfer functions for cyan magenta yellow black
{0.7 exp} {0.7 exp} {0.6 exp} {0.5 exp} setcolortransfer
I have that file named gamma.ps and keep it in my /home directory.
I didn't test these settings out yet, but they should be a good starting
point.
I hope that's enough to get you going.
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