Hi all,
I'm a new member and am having a ball setting up my printing and particularly the Dye Sub part. I had a cow of a time initially because I had been told I 'absolutely must' have an Epson or Ricoh printer and use ICC profiles, which will only work with Windows or Mac.
This thread is simply to let people starting in Dye Sub know it is possible to work exclusively in Linux and use free software for everything.
However, it will take some experimenting. You will waste some material. I found cheap 100% polyester cotton bed sheets and a pair of scissors to be invaluable.
Then I started on mugs. Hmmm. No real option there although I do sometimes test the press with a mug wrapped in a piece of polyester bed sheet. Doesn't work for polysub mugs though, but it does get colours close - cheaply.
I posted some info on initial settings HERE for anyone game to experiment. If you have a reasonable computer that already dual boots Mint, Ubuntu or Zorin you have pretty well everything you need.
Libre Office Draw for layout and final colour adjustment and tweaks. (Once you get a perfect print you save it with the appropriate name).
GIMP for initial colour edit and print corrections
Inkscape or Xara LX Xtreme for vector graphics.
I hope this is as much help to someone as the rest of the forum has been to me.