[lug] linux and digital photography

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 18:54 -0700, Davide Del Vento wrote:
> 4) I print on Windows Vista, I'm the guy whose printer (an Epson R280)
> prints stripes when used from linux (it works perfectly from Vista).
> Note that this is the first time I'm using windows on one of my
> computers since 1997, so it really bothers me

Are you using the stock R280 support or the one from Linuxprinting.org?
I use the latter, and it works great for that printer.  See my comments
on my blog:
http://www.graphics-muse.org/wp/index.php?s=r280&submit=Search+the+Blog

Important note:  the Gutenprint driver is a back rev from what
distributions (at least Fedora) are using so everytime you do a global
distro update your Gutenprint driver gets updated to a non-working
version.  Just remove the update version and reinstall the RPM you
download from Linuxprinting.org.

And no, I have no idea why the up-rev versions don't include the R280
driver.

> I am not using color profiles (my windows is 640x480, so they would be
> almost useless), but if I were able to print from linux, I would like
> to use them. I googled and see that something exists for linux, but is
> anybody actually using them in a daily basis?

Not on a daily basis but I wrote an article for Linux Format magazine
for using color profiles under GIMP and manually adjusting your monitor.
Unfortunately, that issue is not online yet which means I can't post the
article yet.  Maybe you can order a copy - the US seems to be a number
of issues behind if you buy it from the book stores.
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=NewArchives&issue=113

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Michael J. Hammel                                    Principal Software Engineer
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org
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