Re: Canon printer minor quibble
On Tue 27 Sep 2016 at 08:09:07 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 05:17:40PM +0100, Brian 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.
> >
>
> Thanks. I am using the Gutenprint driver. I see cups-calibrate in my
> future -- didn't know that existed. I'd been sort of hidebound by the
> assumption that everything from Windows must have been going through the
> same CUPS path as everything from Linux -- but the evidence sort of
> disproves that doesn't it. Thanks, I'll look into cups-calibrate.
It wasn't cups-calibrate I was really advocating but the trying out of
printing a file using the Canon and Gutenprint drivers. Do both give the
same outcome?
--
Brian.
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