Printing from Gimp in linux is almost as bad as in Windows. You are in the hands of the printer manufacturer to provide support and printer drivers. The ones you show HP are supported. Epson is not bad, I use a Brother inkjet and they provide drivers for it. Canon generally do not support linux very much. The printer might work but with limitations. For my home printing - some photographs - some DVD's - some work printed on art paper the 3 colour + black Brother is adequate.
Not too sure how up-to-date this is but it is a start https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openpri...abaseintro
If your linux distro provides gutenprint and the printer is supported, gutenprint provides an additional improved printing interface.
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16 bit vs 8 bit I do not think it makes much difference for home printing, the printer is probably going to resize the image anyway. For a commercial printer, ask them. If they want a jpeg then it is going to be 8 bit - that is jpeg standards. Otherwise, they would need to accept a tiff. File size might come in as well. Walmart? look at their specs. There are some excellent printing companies using high grade inkjet printers for smaller sizes and color laser printers for large images. Not cheap. Example, http://www.digitalab.co.uk/photo-prints-...t-results/ - wrong country for you
Colour calibration, Ofnuts asked the question one time see: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/color-calibra...nux/2638/3
Not too sure how up-to-date this is but it is a start https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openpri...abaseintro
If your linux distro provides gutenprint and the printer is supported, gutenprint provides an additional improved printing interface.
16 bit vs 8 bit I do not think it makes much difference for home printing, the printer is probably going to resize the image anyway. For a commercial printer, ask them. If they want a jpeg then it is going to be 8 bit - that is jpeg standards. Otherwise, they would need to accept a tiff. File size might come in as well. Walmart? look at their specs. There are some excellent printing companies using high grade inkjet printers for smaller sizes and color laser printers for large images. Not cheap. Example, http://www.digitalab.co.uk/photo-prints-...t-results/ - wrong country for you
Colour calibration, Ofnuts asked the question one time see: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/color-calibra...nux/2638/3