gimpprint-resolutions(7) Gimp-Print Manual Pages gimpprint-resolutions(7)
NAME
gimpprint-resolutions - Gimp-Print print resolutions
DESCRIPTION
Gimp-Print supports many different resolutions, which are printer type
specific. The option names are case sensitive. Not all resolutions
are supported on all printers.
PRINT RESOLUTONS
Epson Stylus printers
Within each specified resolution, the quality is generally listed from
worst to best (and generally higher quality means lower speed). For
example, 360 DPI Unidirectional is usually better than 360 DPI. Char-
acteristics of specific models and individual printers may affect the
orderings to some degree; on many printers, with certain papers, unidi-
rectional printing will improve quality substantially more than using
an otherwise better quality printing mode.
The difference between different quality settings lies in the number of
passes made over each line. "High" and "Highest" quality settings per-
form more passes, printing fewer dots with each pass over the same line
and using different nozzles for each pass. This reduces banding
effects, but requires more time.
We generally recommend the following resolutions for the following pur-
poses:
Resolution Recommended use
------------------------------------------------------
360x90 Fast economy draft output on plain paper
360x120 (output will be very banded and not very
dark).
180 Economy draft output on plain paper
(output will not be very dark).
360x180 Draft output on plain paper (output will
360x240 not be solidly black); economy draft
output on good quality inkjet paper.
360 Standard quality output on plain paper
(output will be solidly black); draft
output on good quality inkjet paper.
720x360 High quality output on plain paper;
standard output on good quality inkjet
paper.
720 Maximum quality on plain paper; high
quality on good inkjet paper; proofs on
photo-quality paper. On many printers,
there will be little difference between
this and 720x360 on plain paper.
1440x720 High quality on photo paper; use
1440x720 Highest Quality to reduce
microbanding if needed. While this will
work on plain paper, it usually offers
little improvement over 720 DPI.
2880x720 Highest quality on photo paper. While
this may yield slightly improved qual-
ity, it will generally not be markedly
superior to 1440x720 Highest Quality,
except on the Stylus Color 980 and Sty-
lus C70 and C80, where it may yield a
noticeable improvement. It takes as
long to print as 1440x720 highest qual-
ity, but twice as long to generate the
output.
1440x1440 An unsupported mode that offers higher
quality than 2880x720 for certain types
of images on very high quality paper.
It does not appear to offer any advan-
tage on smooth tones, but fine detail
(particularly vertical, and to a lesser
extent near-horizontal) it shows notice-
able improvement. It takes as long to
print as 2880x720. 1440x1440 highest
quality takes twice as long to print.
2880x1440 An unsupported mode that may offer
higher quality than 2880x720 for certain
types of images on very high quality
paper. Experiments conducted thus far
demonstrate little if any improvement
over 1440x1440. It takes twice as long
to print as 2880x720 or 1440x1440, and
as long to print as 1440x1440 highest
quality.
The following resolutions are supported on printers other than the Sty-
lus Pro (5000, 5500, 7000, 7500, 9000, 9500, and 10000) printers. Res-
olutions for those printers are listed in a later section. Please see
the notes at the end of this section.
Quality Description Note
-------------------------------------------------------------
360x90dpi 360 x 90 DPI Fast Economy Draft (1)
360x90sw 360 x 90 DPI Fast Economy Draft (2)
180dpi 180 DPI Economy Draft (3)
180sw 180 DPI Economy Draft (2)
360x180dpi 360 x 180 DPI Draft (3)
360x180sw 360 x 180 DPI Draft (4)
360x120dpi 360 x 120 DPI Economy Draft (5)
360x120sw 360 x 120 DPI Economy Draft (6)
360x240dpi 360 x 240 DPI Draft (5)
360x240sw 360 x 240 DPI Draft (6)
360dpi 360 DPI (7)
360mw 360 DPI High Quality (7, *)
360sw 360 DPI (8, 9, *)
720x360sw 720 x 360 DPI (10, 11, 12)
720sw 720 DPI (13)
720hq 720 DPI High Quality (13)
720hq2 720 DPI Highest Quality (13)
720mw 720 DPI (14)
1440x720sw 1440 x 720 DPI (15)
1440x720hq 1440 x 720 DPI Highest Quality (16)
2880x720sw 2880 x 720 DPI (17)
2880x720hq 2880 x 720 DPI Highest Quality (18)
1440x1440sw 1440 x 1440 DPI (19)
2880x1440sw 2880 x 1440 DPI (20)
2880x2880sw 2880 x 2880 DPI (21)
* This setting is the default on all printers supporting this set-
ting except for the PM-930C and PM-970C, which support no reso-
lution lower than 720x360 DPI.
1 Works on printers that have a basic vertical spacing of 1/90".
This includes the Stylus Color, Stylus Color 440, 460, 600, 640,
660, 670, and 1500, and Stylus Photo, Stylus Photo 700, 720, and
EX.
2 Works on the Stylus Color 640 and 660.
3 Works on most printers that have a basic vertical spacing of
1/90, 1/180, or 1/360 inch. This includes Stylus Color, Stylus
Color 440, 460, 600, 640, 660, 670, 800, 850, 900, 980, 1500,
1520, 3000, and Stylus Photo, Stylus Photo 700, 720 and EX.
4 Works on Stylus Color 640 and 660; Stylus C70, C80, and C82; and
Stylus Photo 950, 960, 2100, 2200, and PM-950C
5 Works on older printers with dot spacing of 1/120 inch. This
includes the Stylus Color Pro, Pro XL, 400, and 500.
6 Works on newer printers with dot spacing of 1/120 inch. This
includes the Stylus C20, C40, C41, C42, C60, C61, and C62; the
Stylus Color 480, 580, 680, 740, 760, 777, 860, 880, 83, and
1160, and the Stylus Photo 750, 780, 785, 790, 810, 820, 825,
830, 870, 875, 890, 895, 900, 915, 925, 1270, 1280, 1290, and
2000P, and the Stylus Scan 2000 and 2500.
7 Works on all printers that do not support variable drop sizes.
This includes the Stylus Color, Stylus Color 400, 440, 460, 500,
600, 640, 660, 800, 850, 1500, 1520, and 3000, Stylus Color Pro,
Stylus Color Pro XL, and Stylus Photo, Stylus Photo 700, and EX.
8 Works on all printers that do support variable drop sizes. This
includes all supported Epson Stylus printers except for those
listed in note (6).
9 This setting prints at particularly high speed on the Epson Sty-
lus Photo 950, 960, 2100, and 2200, and the PM-950C when used in
color with three or four color mode, or with grayscale in any
mode other than two or seven color.
10 Works on all supported printers except for Stylus Color, Stylus
Color Pro, Stylus Color Pro XL, Stylus Color 1500, 1520, and
3000. On printers that do not support variable drop size (see
note (4)), this will print as fast as 360 DPI, and faster than
360 DPI High Quality. It will take twice as long to generate
output, which may be important on a heavily loaded system or a
processor slower than 200 MHz.
11 This is the default resolution on the PM-930C and PM-970C.
12 This setting prints at particularly high speed on the Epson
PM-930C and PM-970C when used in color with three or four color
mode, or with grayscale in any mode other than two or seven
color.
13 Works on certain printers that do not support 1440x720 DPI: Sty-
lus Photo (original), Stylus Color 440, 460, 480, Stylus C20SX,
and Stylus C20UX.
14 Works on some older printers, including the Stylus Color, Stylus
Color 400, 500, 600, 800, 850, 1500, 1520, and 3000, Stylus
Color Pro, and Stylus Color Pro XL. Not recommended except for
the Stylus Color, Stylus Color 1500, 1520, and 3000.
15 Works on all printers that support 1440x720 DPI. This includes
all supported printers except for the Stylus Color, Stylus Color
Pro, Pro XL, 400, 440, 460, 480, 500, and 1500, and Stylus
Photo. In addition, this may not work correctly on Stylus Color
1520 and Stylus Color 3000.
16 Works on printers that support 1440x720 DPI, but not any higher
resolution. This includes the Stylus Color 580, 670 740, 760,
860, 900, and 1160, Stylus Photo EX, EX3, 700, 720, 750, 870,
875, 1200, 1270, and 2000P, Stylus C40, C41, C42, and C50, and
Stylus Scan 2000 and 2500.
17 Works on all printers that support 2880x720 DPI. This includes
the Stylus C60, C61, C62, C70, C80, and C82, the Stylus Color
680, 777, 880, 83, and 980, and Stylus Photo 780, 785, 790, 810,
820, 825, 830, 890, 895, 900, 915, 925, 950, 960, 1280, and
1290. It specifically does not include the Stylus Photo 950,
960, 2100, and 2200, and the PM-930C, PM-950C, and PM-970C.
18 Works on printers that support 2880x720 DPI, but not any higher
resolution. This includes the Stylus C60, the Stylus Color 680,
777, 880, 83, and 980, and Stylus Photo 780, 785, 790, 810, 820,
890, 895, 900, 915, 1280, and 1290.
19 Works on Epson Stylus Photo 825, 830, and 925, and Stylus C61,
C62, C70, C80, C82. This resolution is not listed by Epson, but
experimentally has been verified to work on at least some print-
ers. It offers the same total resolution as 2880x720, but the
more even distribution of dots may yield better results in some
cases.
20 Works on all printers that support 2880x1440 DPI. This includes
the Stylus C62, Stylus Photo 825, 830, 925, 950, 960, 2100, and
2200, and the PM-930C, PM-950C, and PM-970C.
21 Works on all printers that support 2880x2880 DPI. This includes
the PM-930C and PM-970C.
The Stylus Pro printers (Stylus Pro 5000, 5500, 7000, 7500, 7600, 9000,
9500, 9600, and 10000) support the following Quality settings:
Quality Description
----------------------------
180dpi 180 DPI
360x180dpi 360 x 180 DPI
360pro 360 DPI
720x360mw 720 x 360 DPI
720mw 720 DPI
1440x720mw 1440 x 720 DPI
In addition, the Stylus Pro 7600 and 9600 printers support the follow-
ing resolutions:
Quality Description
------------------------------
2880x720mw 2880 x 720 DPI
1440x1440mw 1440 x 1440 DPI
2880x1440mw 2880 x 1440 DPI
PCL printers (including Hewlett-Packard and Lexmark 4076)
In addition, the Stylus Pro 7600 and 9600 printers support the follow-
ing resolutions:
Quality Description
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150dpi 150x150 DPI (should work on all printers)
300dpi 300x300 DPI (should work on all printers,
C-RET on DJ 850/855/870/890)
600x300dpi 600x300 DPI (DJ 6xx/810/812/840/842/895)
600mono 600x600 DPI monochrome (DJ 6xx (except
69x) /8xx/1100/1120)
600dpi 600x600 DPI (DJ
69x/840/9xx/1220/2000/2500, PhotoSmart
P1000/P1100, LJ5/5Si/6)
Note: the higher resolutions of newer PCL printers using "Photo-Ret"
are not yet supported.
Lexmark printers (other than the 4076)
Quality Description
---------------------------------------------------------
300x600dpi 300 DPI x 600 DPI
600dpi 600 DPI
600hq 600 DPI high quality
600uni 600 DPI Unidirectional
1200dpi 1200 DPI
1200hq 1200 DPI high quality
1200hq2 1200 DPI highest quality
1200uni 1200 DPI Unidirectional
2400x1200dpi 2400 DPI x 1200 DPI (Z52)
2400x1200hq 2400 DPI x 1200 DPI high quality (Z52)
2400x1200hq2 2400 DPI x 1200 DPI highest quality (Z52)
Canon printers
1200 DPI printers (BJC 7000, BJC 7100, BJC 8200, BJC 8500):
Quality Description
-------------------------------
300x300dpi 300x300 DPI
300x300dmt 300x300 DPI DMT
600x600dpi 600x600 DPI
600x600dmt 600x600 DPI DMT
1200x600dpi 1200x600 DPI
1200x1200dpi 1200x1200 DPI
1440 DPI printers (BJC 1000, BJC 2000, BJC 3000, BJC 4300, BJC 4400,
BJC 5100, BJC 5500, BJC 6000, BJC 6100, BJC 6500, BJC 8200):
Quality Description
-------------------------------
360x360dpi 360x360 DPI
360x360dmt 360x360 DPI DMT
720x360dpi 720x360 DPI
720x720dpi 720x720 DPI
1440x720dpi 1440x720 DPI
1440x1440dpi 1440x1440 DPI
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com) and Robert Krawitz
(rlk@alum.mit.edu)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This manual page was written by Roger Leigh (rleigh@debian.org)
SEE ALSO
gimpprint-color(7), gimpprint-dithers(7), gimpprint-imagetypes(7),
gimpprint-inktypes(7), gimpprint-mediasizes(7), gimpprint-media-
sources(7)"; } ?>, gimpprint-mediatypes(7), gimpprint-models(7).
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