On 23/06/12 03:01, Gary Montalbine wrote:
On 06/22/2012 08:56 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 20:01 -0400, Gary Montalbine wrote:
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Angelo's fixes made the color much better. The print was still slightly
darker but usable. Print quality has gradually decreased since then and
is beyond my technical capability or desire to correct.
OK, thanks, this is new information for those of us who had been unaware
of the bugzill history :)
It is time to
get a new printer.
This may be a question best asked on the forums. But to avoid other
people getting confused about the problem, start out with, "I'm looking
to replace my old HP printer. Is there an all-in-one HP printer people
would recommend for use with the new Mageia 2 release?"
(I don't have an answer since I don't currently have an HP printer here)
Liam
I had asked earlier on the printer forum and have had only one
response with no recommendation. If nothing else there was good
information about calibration presented here that should help the more
technically inclined. My question was not a complete waste of time and
space.
I am looking at the HP Photosmart 6510
Thanks all for your help.
Gary
Coming in late on this because I wanted to try photoprinting again on my
HP Deskjet 6520. Set up a queue and tried commandline printing and got
nowhere. Gqview simple gave up and stopped the job but supplied a huge
pile of diagnostics with the summary "There's no answer to this!" or
similar words. Installed gwenview and managed to print a jpeg file
without any difficulty. It came out a bit dark but the colour balance
looked OK. A bit of twiddling with the gamma would help (used
judiciously so as not to distort the colours).
For ten years or more I have used command-line printing without much
trouble but of late it seems that CUPS or HPLIP or both ignore
command-line options like position and scaling so I gave up on
photoprinting. Gqview and the gimp just acted as a wrapper for the lpr
command and suffered from the same problems with sizing and positioning.
Will try gwenview on my Photosmart Premium C310. Photocopies look fine,
with a bit of a shift in the colour brightness (hue?), as usual towards
the darker side so I would expect photo printing to be similar.
I had an HP7260 at one time and that had no difficulty with lpr. All it
needed was the options for orientation and scaling (100% by default,
full page to the margins). Centring was center by default and I did not
mess with that.
Len
