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Title: B&W printing Post by: JorgeO on November 24, 2010, 12:20:16 PM Hello, my first post.
I'm an amateur photographer, and print A4 photos in an Epson office printer. If I use Qimage, is it possible to print B&W using black ink only? (nowadays I use Gutenprint to do it; the Epson driver will always use color ink with photo quality paper). Thanks, Title: Re: B&W printing Post by: efikim on December 11, 2010, 03:13:20 PM I think the short answer is no!
the round about way I do it (using an Epson R2400) is to output a file resized and output sharpened at 720 dpi from Qimage and print using Roy Harrington's QuadToneRip (http://www.quadtonerip.com/ (http://www.quadtonerip.com/)). This has the disadvantage that the image file is only 8 bit per channel while 16 bit would be preferable, as the RIP has to do some further processing before passing it on to the printer (QTR operates as a frontend to gutenprint, I think). This may be more complicated than you want, and QTR only supports some Epson printers. Can you take a saved file and then print directly via gutenprint, still getting the advantage of Qimage's resizing and sharpening algorithms? |