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The print was still slightly +</I>>>>><i> darker but usable. Print quality has gradually decreased since 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 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 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 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've had what looks to my untrained eye like decent success printing +from The GIMP on my Officejet 6110 - and my Deskjet 5650. + +TJ + + +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007999.html">[Mageia-discuss] HP Printer +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008002.html">[Mageia-discuss] HP Printer +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8001">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8001">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8001">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8001">[ 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> |