On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 06:05:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 00:03:38 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Anyway will finish trying to understand that shell script later -- it > > wants me to run it as root, no way I am doing that until I have > > satisfied myself I know roughly what it is going to do -- and then will > > install the driver and compare the output. > > Be a Debian man; dispense with that script and install the two provided > debs with 'dpkg -i'. I don't want to spoil the fun but will mention that > 'apt-get -f install' and Wheezy are your friends. >
This is what I did although in practice neither apt-get -f install nor Wheezy were needed. > It gets boring after the package install. A print queue is easily set up > and printing to file gives no trouble. > Indeed -- 2 dpkg -i invokations, and a setup of the printer in the CUPS web admin tool, and I was done. I set up the "new" printer with a slightly different name, so both can co-exist on the system. Looking at the test page I could immediately see the colours were less dark with the Canon driver. I then tried printing a couple of photos I had lying around and they come out much better with the Canon driver. Windows cannot print to the new CUPS printer, so clearly some of my fannying around with AirPrint and/or samba did actually do something useful after all. But Windows can still print, using the old printer, which has always been good quality, and direct Linux printing can now get better quality than before, so I am happy. Thanks a lot Brian for your advice with this. Mark
