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2. Introduction

Congratulations on choosing TurboPrint! From now on your Linux Workstation and your printer will combine to make a great team: with TurboPrint you will really make the most of your printer's capabilities! Have fun with TurboPrint - and the best printing results ever!

What is TurboPrint?

TurboPrint is a high-quality printer driver package for Linux designed to produce maximum quality photo prints as well as high-speed text documents. With the integrated colour-matching-system and sophisticated dithering techniques you will achieve perfect printouts and realistic colour reproduction up to photo quality.

Printer set-up and configuration is as simple as on Windows or MacOS. There are over 100 laser and inkjet printers supported in TurboPrint - no doubt your printer will be in the list.

All features of the printers are supported, even a toolbox for jobs like cleaning nozzles is included.

Highest Compatibility

TurboPrint is built on existing standards (KDE and GNOME, CUPS and LPR printer spooler, ghostscript interpreter for Postscript) thus achieving easy integration and maximum compatibility with existing applications.

Intelligent Printer Drivers

Graphical user interfaces help to make setup and configuration very easy and comfortable. No need to worry about difficult settings like gamma, color adjustment, etc. Just choose the printer, paper and desired print quality - TurboPrint does the rest. Of course, professionals may still adjust these functions manually.

The printer drivers of TurboPrint support all technical features of the printers - e.g. special papers, photo cartridges and highest print resolutions.

Printer Toolbox

With the "Toolbox" you can now also comfortably perform maintenance jobs like cleaning nozzles, aligning the print head and checking the ink capacity.

True Match Color Correction

TurboPrint includes TrueMatch, a color correction system based on color profiles. This system makes sure that your printer reproduces accurately what you see on the screen. High quality color profiles for all kinds of output media (plain paper, matte inkjet papers, glossy inkjet papers, etc.) ensure optimum color reproduction.

High-Quality Dithering

The sophisticated dithering techniques ensure smooth color transitions and fewer visible dots. Error diffusion for high quality or ordered dithering for high throughput can be chosen.

Multiuser support

TurboPrint's configuration tool works either in administrator or user mode. The administrator can install new printers and set default configurations. Users can also set their own printer configurations (color mode, print quality, etc.).

Network printing

Even network printer can be set up in the TurboPrint configuration tool. Thus printing to remote Unix & Windows printers is as simple as using a local printer.


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