On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 21:24, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
Using CUPs, the test print page comes out with very good text, but the photo is printed in horrible quality, like a posterized filter with few colours. This is SuSE 9.1, but same thing happened on 8.2 and 8.1, but not on 7.3 or 7.1 - all tests on the same machine, and all except 9.1 on the same day. That is, this is a persistent problem with CUPS. For comparison, windows prints perfect quality. This was already reported to "feedback" time ago, no comments given.
I could scan and email the print page, I suppose - my bandwidth is very limited, but if somebody can solve this, I would gladly email it (or even snail-mail it).
Details (hand copied from the test page):
Model: Canon BJC-4000 PPD file: Canon BJC-4000 Foomatic/bjc600 Options: (the ones that seems to work best) Color Mode: Colour Colour Model: Four-Color CMYK GS. Bits per pixel: CMYK with FS dithering (24 bpp) Media Type: Plain paper Page Size: A4 Print Quality: High Quality Resolution: 360 DPI Sheet Feeder. Automatic Colours to be used: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Before anybody tells me to use the gimp-print driver, I did. It prints much slower (2 or 3 minutes per page, perhaps), and the quality is not good enough, just passable, for personal use. Text comes out worse, greyish. Photo is usable, but grainy and low in ink (ink is probably adjustable)
The first bit of advice I would give is not to buy Canon. The company does not support open source, therefore you are relying on someone reverse engineering the window drivers. That said have you looked at http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-BJC-4000 Maybe your best bet is to try out TurboPrint http://www.irseesoft.de/linux/english.html -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------