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.TH GIMPPRINT\-RESOLUTIONS 7 "@RELEASE_DATE@" "Version @GIMPPRINT_VERSION@" "Gimp-Print Manual Pages"
.SH NAME
gimpprint\-resolutions \- Gimp-Print print resolutions
.SH 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.
.SH PRINT RESOLUTONS
.SS 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, \fI360 DPI
Unidirectional\fP is usually better than \fI360 DPI\fP.  Characteristics of
specific models and individual printers may affect the orderings to some
degree; on many printers, with certain papers, unidirectional printing will
improve quality substantially more than using an otherwise better quality
printing mode.
.PP
The difference between different quality settings lies in the number
of passes made over each line.  "High" and "Highest" quality settings
perform 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.
.PP
We generally recommend the following resolutions for the following
purposes:
.PP
.IP
.TS
li li.
Resolution	Recommended use
_
.T&
lb lw(4i)
lb ^.
360x90	T{
.na
Fast economy draft output on plain paper (output will be very banded and not
very dark).
T}
360x120	
.T&
lb l.
180	T{
Economy draft output on plain paper (output will not be very dark).
T}
.T&
lb l
lb ^.
360x180	T{
Draft output on plain paper (output will not be solidly black); economy draft
output on good quality inkjet paper.
T}
360x240	
.T&
lb l.
360	T{
Standard quality output on plain paper (output will be solidly black); draft
output on good quality inkjet paper.
T}
720x360	T{
High quality output on plain paper; standard output on good
quality inkjet paper.
T}
720	T{
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.
T}
1440x720	T{
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.
T}
2880x720	T{
Highest quality on photo paper.  While this may yield slightly improved
quality, it will generally not be markedly superior to 1440x720 Highest
Quality, except on the Stylus Color 980 and Stylus C70 and C80, where it may
yield a noticeable improvement.  It takes as long to print as 1440x720 highest
quality, but twice as long to generate the output.
T}
1440x1440	T{
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
advantage on smooth tones, but fine detail (particularly vertical, and to a
lesser extent near-horizontal) it shows noticeable improvement.  It takes as
long to print as 2880x720.  1440x1440 highest quality takes twice as long to
print.
T}
2880x1440	T{
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.
.ad
T}
.TE
.PP
The following resolutions are supported on printers other than the
Stylus Pro (5000, 5500, 7000, 7500, 9000, 9500, and 10000) printers.
Resolutions for those printers are listed in a later section.  Please
see the notes at the end of this section.
.PP
.TS
li li li
lb l l.
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)
.TE
.IP *
This setting is the default on all printers supporting this setting
except for the PM-930C and PM-970C, which support no resolution lower
than 720x360 DPI.
.IP 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.
.IP 2
Works on the Stylus Color 640 and 660.
.IP 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.
.IP 4
Works on Stylus Color 640 and 660; Stylus C70, C80, and C82; and
Stylus Photo 950, 960, 2100, 2200, and PM-950C
.IP 5
Works on older printers with dot spacing of 1/120 inch.  This includes
the Stylus Color Pro, Pro XL, 400, and 500.
.IP 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.
.IP 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.
.IP 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).
.IP 9
This setting prints at particularly high speed on the Epson Stylus
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.
.IP 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.
.IP 11
This is the default resolution on the PM-930C and PM-970C.
.IP 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.
.IP 13
Works on certain printers that do not support 1440x720 DPI: Stylus
Photo (original), Stylus Color 440, 460, 480, Stylus C20SX, and Stylus
C20UX.
.IP 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.
.IP 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.
.IP 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.
.IP 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.
.IP 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.
.IP 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 printers.
It offers the same total resolution as 2880x720, but the more even
distribution of dots may yield better results in some cases.
.IP 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.
.IP 21
Works on all printers that support 2880x2880 DPI.  This includes the
PM-930C and PM-970C.
.PP
The Stylus Pro printers (Stylus Pro 5000, 5500, 7000, 7500, 7600,
9000, 9500, 9600, and 10000) support the following Quality settings:
.PP
.TS
li li
lb l.
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
.TE
.PP
In addition, the Stylus Pro 7600 and 9600 printers support the
following resolutions:
.PP
.TS
li li
lb l.
Quality	Description
_
2880x720mw	2880 x 720 DPI
1440x1440mw	1440 x 1440 DPI
2880x1440mw	2880 x 1440 DPI
.TE
.SS PCL printers (including Hewlett-Packard and Lexmark 4076)
.PP
In addition, the Stylus Pro 7600 and 9600 printers support the
following resolutions:
.PP
.TS
li li
lb lw(3i).
Quality	Description
_
150dpi	150x150 DPI (should work on all printers)
300dpi	T{
.na
300x300 DPI 
(should work on all printers, C-RET on DJ 850/855/870/890)
T}
600x300dpi	600x300 DPI (DJ 6xx/810/812/840/842/895)
600mono	T{
600x600 DPI monochrome (DJ 6xx (except 69x) /8xx/1100/1120)
T}
600dpi	T{
600x600 DPI (DJ 69x/840/9xx/1220/2000/2500,
PhotoSmart P1000/P1100, LJ5/5Si/6)
.ad
T}
.TE
.PP
Note: the higher resolutions of newer PCL printers using "Photo-Ret" are
not yet supported.
.SS Lexmark printers (other than the 4076)
.TS
li li
lb l.
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)
.TE
.SS Canon printers
1200 DPI printers (BJC 7000, BJC 7100, BJC 8200, BJC 8500):
.PP
.TS
li li
lb l.
Quality	Description
_
300x300dpi	300x300 DPI
300x300dmt	300x300 DPI DMT
600x600dpi	600x600 DPI
600x600dmt	600x600 DPI DMT
1200x600dpi	1200x600 DPI
1200x1200dpi	1200x1200 DPI
.TE
.PP
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):
.PP
.TS
li li
lb l.
Quality	Description
_
360x360dpi	360x360 DPI
360x360dmt	360x360 DPI DMT
720x360dpi	720x360 DPI
720x720dpi	720x720 DPI
1440x720dpi	1440x720 DPI
1440x1440dpi	1440x1440 DPI
.TE
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2001 Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com) and Robert Krawitz
(rlk@alum.mit.edu)
.PP
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.
.PP
This manual page was written by Roger Leigh (rleigh@debian.org)
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR gimpprint\-color (7),
.BR gimpprint\-dithers (7),
.BR gimpprint\-imagetypes (7),
.BR gimpprint\-inktypes (7),
.BR gimpprint\-mediasizes (7),
.BR gimpprint\-mediasources (7),
.BR gimpprint\-mediatypes (7),
.BR gimpprint\-models (7).
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