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For almost ten years I sold abouit 9,000 copies of FastRIP. I made an exclusive deal with them to be able to modify their software and sell to the screen printing market. They had no idea what they had and they had no interest (or knowledge) in the T-Shirt printing market. It was based on a little used program from a company called CadLINK. In 2000 I developed one of the first affordable RIP’s for T-Shirt printers.

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So I think it is for us to judge the pros and cons of the gutenprint drivers individually vs the default printer driver it was designed to exceed, and how bad we need it.Short history and update for T-RIP by Scott Fresener. Not everyone has the same printing needs though. I am not really sure what that means but I am thinking, does the faster printing with the default driver means that they are really printing at less than 1440x720dpi? Or maybe our drivers were written to print more economically sacrificing quality? I don't know how it is done (but except for the off-colored magenta), in a way, it fills my images with contiguous ink where the default driver can't.Īnd for transparencies, it may interest you to know that a 1440x720dpi resolution setting prints slower than the best photo setting using the default driver. But then, when printed via gutenprint, the image has an even tone without these 'empty' lines. And I still am getting a darker than normal magenta which really messed up my photo printing. This exaggerated the vertical white inkless lines of my images. However, I think I've over adjusted and messed up my eeprom settings trying to align my printer perfectly. It took me more than an hour to print each page though. I say forced ink because I printed with the highest density option and the highest resolution for my printer (5760x2880dpi). I did not clean them but forced ink through the nozzles cleaned them. However, just a few days with gutenprint and the nozzle was cleaned. In my case, I was unable to clean my nozzle with the default driver's nozzle cleaning utility. You have to try it to see if it suits you. They are really a different set of drivers and gives you tremendous control over your printing. The file above is in corel exported to jpg then opened in GIMP and printed by gutenprint plug-in. It would really be nice but gutenprint is essentially a photo printing utility and not for vector files although it supports SVG.

Also notice the black curve window.Īll these enabled me to print a much blacker black. Look at them carefully and notice the various options that enabled me to print at 5760x2880dpi, to print transparencies, print at a density of 8 (although I don't know what 8 really represents). It even lists GZIP and BZIP zipped files as well as SVG vectors as among the files it can open but I have not tried opening these files yet though.Īfter you installed gutenprint, you can select it from the print menu, attached are the various screen options. This includes BMP, EPS, JPG, PDF, PNG, PS, PSD, TIFF among others. You will definitely have to save your files in a format that GIMP recognizes. A small list of the epson printers supported are:įor a complete list of supported printers like Apollo, Apple Color StyleWriter, Citizen, Compaq, DEC, Gestetner, IBM, Infotec, Kyocera, Lanier, Lexmark, Minolta, NEC, NRC, OKI, Olympus, PCPI, Panasonic, Raven, Ricoh, Samsung, Savin, Seiko, Sharp, Shinko, Sony, Star, Tally, Tektronix, and Xerox, click Gutenprint Supported Printers It has support for quite a large number of printers. Gutenprint is the predecessor of GIMP-Print.

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To change its source code to make it a more suitable for us if we can.

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This essentially means that we are free to use and distribute these GNU software. Both are freeware released under the GNU General Public License. Gutenprint is a separate printing facility of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). However, I hope someone else find more treasures that gutenprint has to offer. And to some printers, this alone means a lot. This is about what it does for now that matters to the screen printer.

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There is really no software called BLACK RIP but because gutenprint enabled me to print blacker BLACK, and to distinguish it from full featured RIP capabilities which include separation and halftones (among others), I refer to it as BLACK RIP.

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