Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Marshall Heartley <marshall.heartley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 07:24 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Hi,

Hello

> 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).
>

Well I am not sure how to solve this.  Does the gs version of the file 
look OK when you tell the system to print to a file?  If so, then it 
is something wrong with the way the inks are being mixed for that 
printer.  Some but not all of CUPS drivers allow for you to adjust 
how much ink hits the paper.  This may be available in the web-based 
interface of CUPS.

I know that this is a commercial offering but have you tried the demo 
version of Turbo Print?  I think that it supports your printer.  
Maybe it is worth a look?

Marshall