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The print was still +</I>>>>>><i> slightly +</I>>>>>><i> darker but usable. Print quality has gradually decreased since +</I>>>>>><i> then and +</I>>>>>><i> is beyond my technical capability or desire to correct. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> OK, thanks, this is new information for those of us who had been +</I>>>>><i> unaware +</I>>>>><i> of the bugzill history :) +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>>><i> It is time to +</I>>>>>><i> get a new printer. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> This may be a question best asked on the forums. But to avoid other +</I>>>>><i> people getting confused about the problem, start out with, "I'm +</I>>>>><i> looking +</I>>>>><i> to replace my old HP printer. Is there an all-in-one HP printer people +</I>>>>><i> would recommend for use with the new Mageia 2 release?" +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> (I don't have an answer since I don't currently have an HP printer +</I>>>>><i> here) +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Liam +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I had asked earlier on the printer forum and have had only one +</I>>>><i> response with no recommendation. If nothing else there was good +</I>>>><i> information about calibration presented here that should help the more +</I>>>><i> technically inclined. My question was not a complete waste of time and +</I>>>><i> space. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I am looking at the HP Photosmart 6510 +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Thanks all for your help. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Gary +</I>>><i> Coming in late on this because I wanted to try photoprinting again on my +</I>>><i> HP Deskjet 6520. Set up a queue and tried commandline printing and got +</I>>><i> nowhere. Gqview simple gave up and stopped the job but supplied a huge +</I>>><i> pile of diagnostics with the summary "There's no answer to this!" or +</I>>><i> similar words. Installed gwenview and managed to print a jpeg file +</I>>><i> without any difficulty. It came out a bit dark but the colour balance +</I>>><i> looked OK. A bit of twiddling with the gamma would help (used +</I>>><i> judiciously so as not to distort the colours). +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> For ten years or more I have used command-line printing without much +</I>>><i> trouble but of late it seems that CUPS or HPLIP or both ignore +</I>>><i> command-line options like position and scaling so I gave up on +</I>>><i> photoprinting. Gqview and the gimp just acted as a wrapper for the lpr +</I>>><i> command and suffered from the same problems with sizing and positioning. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Will try gwenview on my Photosmart Premium C310. Photocopies look fine, +</I>>><i> with a bit of a shift in the colour brightness (hue?), as usual towards +</I>>><i> the darker side so I would expect photo printing to be similar. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I had an HP7260 at one time and that had no difficulty with lpr. All it +</I>>><i> needed was the options for orientation and scaling (100% by default, +</I>>><i> full page to the margins). Centring was center by default and I did not +</I>>><i> mess with that. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Len +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> I've had what looks to my untrained eye like decent success printing +</I>><i> from The GIMP on my Officejet 6110 - and my Deskjet 5650. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> TJ +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>Prints come out fine on the C310 with Gwenview. Initially the B209 +driver was all that was available for it, producing rather poor prints. + +Len + +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008001.html">[Mageia-discuss] HP Printer +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007984.html">[Mageia-discuss] HP Printer +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8002">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8002">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8002">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8002">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |