Quality Printing with GIMP

Posted by rossendryv on Oct 18, 2010 7:05 PM EDT
blog.worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis
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On a free software desktop, printing is rarely a problem, because significant work has gone into making CUPS, Foomatic, and other parts of the printing tool chain work well. There are still a few things the average user can do to enhance the quality of prints from graphics applications like GIMP.

An image undergoes multiple transformation between the time is read from the hard disk and the time it pops out of the printer. Most importantly, of course, that includes the editing that you perform in GIMP. A critical component to getting consistently good prints in enabling and configuring GIMP’s color management (CM). CM is built-in to all recent GIMP releases, but it does not come pre-configured, so if you don’t take the time to set it up, it does you no good.

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