Advanced

Quality Printing with GIMP

Posted by rossendryv on · Post a comment
blog.worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis
Mail this story
Print this story

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.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first.

Post a comment

A free account is needed to post. Write your comment here first: your text is kept in this browser while you sign up or log in, and is waiting for you when you come back.

Your message:
|||||
10
Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, [text](https://link), - lists, > quotes, $x^2$ for math. Formatting help

Sign up and post (it is free)  or  Log in and post