Re: Canon printer minor quibble
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 07:14:26PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>
> > On Mon 26 Sep 2016 at 23:50:39 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> ...
> >
> > The colour abnormality could be simply be because the Canon driver is
> > rubbish at colour management or it needs adjusting. There is a driver in
> > printer-driver-gutenprint which is for your printer; I'd suggest testing
> > that with the printer. It comes with the cups-calibrate program.
>
> Not to forget the color profiles delivered by vendor, but usually one could
> setup different management profiles also in the cups driver on the
> frontend/backend side.
> I would check there too. It must be something like RGB, CYMK, native etc.
>
Yes, I have fiddled with that in the past, on printing from say evince
or gimp, I don't recall getting it to make any difference. Which
probably means something is overriding it, or "compensating" in some
way, trying to be clever...
Mark
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