On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:53:11PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > 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?
Sorry Brian, I think some confusion there due to my phrasing in the original post. There is, to my knowledge, no Canon-supplied Linux CUPS driver for this printer. When I said some variation of "Canon iX6500 series driver" in my original post, I was referring to the Gutenprint driver as that is what the Gutenprint driver is called. Now I will be honest, I haven't googled this recently, and don't have time to even now as I am actually supposed to be in the shower and then on my way to work, but I will check later... but at the time I first set this printer up I could not find anything from Canon for Linux for this printer. Language may have been getting in the way at the time, as this particular model number is/was only ever sold in Japan to my knowledge. In the very early days Gutenprint didn't have a driver either and I was using a driver with a very approximately similar name which very approximately worked... but in the fullness of time the Gutenprint driver I am using appeared (or I finally saw what was in front of my face, that is also possible) and I am using it now. The darkness of native Linux printing, and the contrast if you will pardon the pun between that and printing from Windows, didn't strike me until some time later when the driver situation had been stable for some time. So to the best of my knowledge I'm using the right driver, all functions certainly work, and the only issue is how dark the images come out, compared to the high quality results I get when I print from Windows. Incidentally, the printer _does_ come with a driver (and a ton of bloatware) for Windows. On one Windows printer I installed the driver and the bloatware, on the other VM I installed the absolute minimum to get the network printer to install. (and when I say network printer, I mean from Windows' perspective -- this printer is not a network printer as far as it is concerned, there is no ethernet port on it, the only way in is USB). So the bloatware isn't the reason the printer is looking better under Windows, since both VMs can print with better results (and the same as each other). So I am being drawn to the conclusion that your comments about the non-existent Canon driver (it being rubbish at colour management) can be applied instead to the Gutenprint driver, hence the way I perked up when you mentioned cups-calibrate. Which I will try the second I get longer than 5 mins in front of my PC. Thanks Mark