That all was the same for 5.2 before profiling. Now for Gutenprint 5.3 I just can’t make it work as it did before The images have color shift, are washed out and are a bit blurry. I did profile this printer and the results were very good (as for that type of printer). įor me, just a Selphy user, Gutenprint 5.2 was excellent. Manual says that from version to version driver can change and you may need to redo your ICC profiles.Gutenprint once you get it is fast and simple!.I don’t understand and fear to use all those knobs in Turboprint.I do not know why it thinks and thinks and thinks before starting. Turboprint is expensive! The license for me equals price for Selphy (used one),.My thoughts on Turboprint vs Gutenprint after over a year with just a Selphy snapshot printer: I’m quite glad I did not start with big you already figured out that you need to assign profile to picture before print, that’s good. I own just a Canon Selphy but that already gave me the headache.

There are some good videos on inkjetmall on how to do it. It helps unclog heads that have been sitting for a while. If you are struggling to revive your printer, check out the cone color piezoflush available at inkjetmall. I am actually converting mine to Cone Color ink and there’s even a profile for that on the turboprint site. Then your prints should come out with no strange cast issues. Then you choose the paper/ink combo you named in step 3 in the printer dialog. You choose the Turboprint version of the printer (not your previous one you added a while back). Then you print in whatever application.The printer profile is a different file type. When you enter that in the dialog, then you click Import to load the profile (NOT THE ICC profile!). In the turboprint config tool you then add the profile in there by setting up a paper +ink combo for that printer.Note these are TWO separate files: TurboPrint | Printer Drivers Then also download the profile for the Turboprint driver to print with, which is in the table beneath the ICC profiles. in GIMP you can add a softproof profile in the settings). Then go here (for your printer) and find both the ICC profile for softproofing (e.g.Configure the printer - in the turboprint configure tool you must add the printer there.Note that the driver is distinctly separate to gutenprint. Even though my test print still require some improvement, I’m regaining confidence that I could stay in Linux to print color and black and white photos.Įpson Stylus Pro 3880 Linux Printer Driver | For turboprint make sure you read the manual first - there’s a PDF on the website to download. It could also be that really is all due to TurboPrint driving the printer. Perhaps it is just a matter of recognizing what those are and copying them over to gutenprint. I suppose that the difference is on the default parameters that TurboPrint uses. But definitively much better than before. I have installed now TurboPrint and the first print looks neutral enough! Not perfect in the very dark patches where I can still distinguish some greenish stuff. It was never possible to obtain a neutral look on the gray only areas of this image (greenish cast). I’m reviving an Epson R2400 that was sitting there for a couple of years.ĭuring the weekend I printed a test image from darktable and gimp through gutenprint. Many thanks for pointing out to TurboPrint.

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