I got some significant improvements in print quality in the latest version on my web site. These improvements are probably specific to the Epson Stylus Photo printers; the gamma and density values were all wrong. There are some other changes, too: 1) A density control (this is multiplied by the printer's density value that feeds into the LUT computation). 2) The gamma control has been completely redone. It is now divided by the printer gamma correction factor to derive a true printer gamma. This means that you should always start with the gamma correction at 1.0 and adjust from there (it's now reasonable to start with ALL controls at 1.0). It also means that the gamma adjustment will have the opposite effect of what it previously had, but the new meaning is, I believe, correct. Another oddity I noticed tonight -- for some reason (I'm not sure what I changed), my printer's printing very slowly, but very high quality -- none of the usual microweave banding, it's perfectly smooth. That's OK by me. Printing at high resolution SHOULD yield the very best possible quality. I've also included a binary (for Gimp 1.1.0 and glibc 2.1) in the distribution package, to save people some effort. Regis, could you try this binary (it's the exact bits I'm using right now to print one of my favorite test patterns). http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/print.tar.gz, as usual. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
