On 09/27/2016 02:38 PM, gimp-users mbourne spamgourmet com wrote:
Your printer probably has a feature to print a test page, usually accessed from the printer properties, which will print some patterns in various colours to check for blockages.
Yes, it does. And I have. The test patterns look normal and are complete. Initially the patterns had missing segments; after a number of cleaning cycles they finally became complete.
One other thing I often do when having problems with colours is to create a page of text in LibreOffice consisting of the following in a large bold font: RED YELLOW GREEN CYAN BLUE MAGENTA BLACK Each word formatted in the corresponding colour. Print that and see how it comes out. I suspect the magenta will come out faint if at all, and the red and blue will be off-colour (the red appearing more towards yellow and the green more towards blue).
I have created such a test document, cool idea. All of the colors print normally AFAICT; the magenta *may* be a bit light, I have no way to be certain. All of the colors are solid, and look like the color they claim to be. The test document was created in Libreoffice. 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. Do the apps reference some common system values for deciding the output color balance? -- James Moe moe dot james at sohnen-moe dot com 520.743.3936 Think.
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