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NAME
       gimpprint-inktypes - Gimp-Print inkset types

DESCRIPTION
       Gimp-Print  supports  many  different  inksets,  which are
       printer type specific.  The option names are  case  sensi-
       tive.  Two names are listed for each resolution; the first
       (short) name is the inktype, and the second (long) name is
       descriptive.   Not  all  ink  types  are  supported on all
       printers.

INK TYPES
   Epson and Lexmark (other than the 4076) printers
       Six color printers can print using four color inks or  all
       six  colors.   Six  color  mode  is  recommended  for pho-
       tographs.  Four color mode may  be  useful  when  printing
       text  with embedded graphics to reduce ink consumption, or
       to print higher quality with Ordered, Fast, or  Very  Fast
       dithering (see below).

       The  "Composite"  modes  use only color inks (no black) to
       produce all colors and black.  These ink types are  rarely
       useful,  but  on certain types of paper they may produce a
       smoother image than that produced by mixing black ink  in.
       The Epson Stylus Color 1500 cannot mix black ink with col-
       ored inks; on this printer, Three Color Composite must  be
       used.

       Ink Type    Description
       -----------------------------------------------------
       Photo7      Seven Color Photo (CcMmYKk, for the
                   Epson Stylus Photo 2100 and 2200, and
                   Stylus Pro 7600 and 9600)
       PhotoCMYK   Six Color Photo
       PhotoCMY    Five Color Photo Composite
       CMYK        Four Color Standard
       RGB         Three Color Composite
       Quadtone    Quadtone  grayscale  inks (special third
                   party inksets designed to produce  supe-
                   rior results for grayscale images)
       Gray2       Two  Level  Grayscale (Kk, for the Epson
                   stylus Photo 2100 and 2200,  and  Stylus
                   Pro 7600 and 9600)

   Canon printers
       Ink Type    Description
       ------------------------
       Gray        Black
       RGB         Color
       CMYK        Black/Color
       PhotoCMY    Photo/Color
       PhotoCMYK   Photo

   PCL (Hewlett-Packard and Lexmark 4076) color printers
       Ink Type   Description
       -----------------------------------------------------------
       CMYK       Color + Black Cartridges
       Photo      Color + Photo Cartridges (For Deskjet 69x only)

       Black  and white PCL printers (laser printers, in particu-
       lar) do not allow any value to be specified  for  the  ink
       type.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  (C)  2001  Michael  Sweet (mike@easysw.com) and
       Robert Krawitz (rlk@alum.mit.edu)

       This program is free software;  you  can  redistribute  it
       and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
       License as published  by  the  Free  Software  Foundation;
       either  version  2 of the License, or (at your option) any
       later version.

       This manual page was written by Roger  Leigh  (roger@whin-
       latter.uklinux.net)

SEE ALSO
       gimpprint-color(7),       gimpprint-dithers(7),      gimp-
       print-imagetypes(7),    gimpprint-mediasizes(7),     gimp-
       print-mediasources(7),    gimpprint-mediatypes(7),   gimp-
       print-models(7), gimpprint-resolutions(7).



Version 4.2.6              11 Jan 2004      GIMPPRINT-INKTYPES(7)