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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: leo.florestan on April 06, 2015, 05:26:29 pm
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hello All,
I would like to understand what is the correct work flow for photo printing in Linux.
At the moment, I print my photos in a Window$ environment.
I prepare an unsharpened, full size TIFF, and print it directly with Qimage for Windows.
Qimage has a clever, effective algorithm that will scale AND sharpen the image to the correct print size, doing all the pixel destructive math on the fly, and only once.
The results are truly amazing.
The problem is... I want to print on my Linux box.
If I sharpen the image in Gimp, it will be scaled to a different size when printing, which is BAD, because scaling is pixel destructive, and sharpening must be the LAST thing you want to do.
I tried Turboprint, but there is no option to manage sharpening while printing...
Any advice will be very, very welcome.
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I don't know what is 'correct' vs. 'what can you make work in Linux'.
http://blog.worldlabel.com/2010/quality-printing-with-gimp.html
you could make a (temporary?) copy and size as needed or you might be able to use ImageMagick as a pipeline/filter element and/or
use GIMP in batch mode.
Or use Qimage in Virtualbox
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at the moment, I do use Qimage in Virtualbox...
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you'll have to decide if you MUST hvae Qimage vs. 'something else' because Qimage is only going to run under Virtualbox or maybe some
WINE derivative.
I suppose you could do your work in GIMP and then drop the image into a hot folder that is shared & monitored by Qimage.
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yes, I know.
I would really like to avoid even that virtual Window$ on my desktop, but Qimage's output is so vastly superior to anything I tried on Linux that I guess I have no choice, and go on like this.