Re: [Gimp-user] Color Printing

2006-09-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 18:03, Øyvind Kolås wrote: Color management support is improved in the latest development versions of GIMP, this is not the same as editing in CMYK mode, but it should be the thing more than 90% of the people asking for CMYK needs, even though they think it is

RE: [Gimp-user] Color Printing

2006-09-28 Thread Rob Ogle
. Rob Ogle, MCSE Computer Server Solutions, inc http://www.css1.cc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R. Culleton Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:07 AM To: Øyvind Kolås Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Printing

2006-09-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 28 September 2006 08:31, Rob Ogle wrote: John, I'm the OP'er...since I'm a network tech and not a graphic designer I want to make sure I understand what I'm getting from these posts before I go back to the designer. When you wrote, ...will need to understand its limitations for

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Printing

2006-09-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 08:07 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: But there is perhaps a way to do it. If a display function can be added to Gimp whereby a double conversion is done, from RGB to CMYK and back again, then the user could view the illo in Gimp with the gamut limited to what it

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Printing

2006-09-27 Thread John R. Culleton
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Printing

2006-09-27 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On 9/27/06, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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.