Re: [Gimp-user] Color mismatch between display and printer

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Jan Kandziora wrote:
> Am 29.09.2016 um 19:53 schrieb James Moe:
> > I imported one of the images from Gimp and printed it. The result
> > was the same: an off-color green tint. This implies the problem is
> > the printer, not Gimp or Libreoffice. While there a few processing
> > steps between an app and the printer, I would expect them to treat
> > the output data as sacred.
> No, you got that wrong. The printer driver has both text and raster
> input. It's not Libreoffice which does the rasterization of text. So
> text colors can be handled differently by the printer driver than
> raster data.

I hadn't considered that text and images might be handled differently! 
As well as trying Scribus as Jan suggests, it may also be worth trying a 
similar test with blocks of colour from GIMP, and see if the magenta 
comes out any different than it did from LibreOffice.

--
Mark.