I would just print a page with various colors on it. A full page with a variety of colors you think may be close. Every printer prints slightly different, so this calibration tool should be used on every different printer if you are concerned about the color. After you have printed the page, you can then cross reference with your gimp .xcf file and select on your computer. Depending on your printer it not look ideal on your PC. It may be a wise idea (if applicable) to have a .xcf file of what looks good on your pc ssaved as an .xcf.
Hope this helps.
Good Luck printing!
Stefan
PS, if you are printing, you may want to contact a local printer. Some of them offer reasonable prices. But you may run into printers who only will give reasonable prices if you print in bulk.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:03 PM, tessanne wrote:

what is the best way to manipulate the colors on gimp in in order to get print
colors to match (if I want to do a trial and error method)? any ideas?

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On Friday 06 November 2009, tessanne wrote:

what is the best way to manipulate the colors on gimp in in order to get print colors to match (if I want to do a trial and error method)? any ideas?

If your printer can use the gutenprint driver, there are all sorts of correction tools in that puppy.