On Sunday 24 September 2006 10:46, Rob Ogle wrote: > I'm trying to get a wedding chapel to move away from Photoshop and start > using the Gimp. They are almost on board except for a printing issue. If we > print a photo from Photoshop to an Epson Stylus 2200 the photo looks great. > But when we print from the Gimp, the colors are "wrong". I don't know > enough graphics terms to describe it. The picture has a greenish and/or > faded quality to it. > > We're running Gimp for Windows on a new XP Pro box w/ a P4 cpu, 1GB RAM and > a 200GB drive. > > Any suggestions? > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Photoshop and the free programs TeX, Scribus, Inkscape, Krita etc. can work in the CMYK color model. Gimp only works in RGB. CMYK has a more limited range of colors than RGB. Printers, both desktop and four color commercial work in CMYK. This is the major hangup with using Gimp as a Photoshop replacement. Apparently adding the additional color model would be a huge undertaking. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
