[Mageia-discuss] Re : Gimp printing

Sun Aug 21 08:50:01 CEST 2011

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+De : "Gary Montalbine" <gmontalbine at cox.net>
+Pour : "Mageia general discussions" <mageia-discuss at mageia.org>
+Objet : [Mageia-discuss] Gimp printing
+Date : sam., août 20, 2011 14:30
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+On 08/20/2011 07:35 AM, Gary Montalbine wrote:
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+> On 08/19/2011 11:09 PM, Balcaen John wrote:
+>> Le Vendredi 19 Août 2011 22:59:39 Gary Montalbine a écrit :
+>>> I mentioned previously that gimp and print assistant did not print the
+>>> image as shown in gimp. It was redder and darker. I went back to
+>>> ML2010.2 and colors match. When I reinstalled ML I was asked if I
+>>> wanted to install a proprietary driver for my video card. I said yes.
+>>> I don't remember seeing this in mageia. Would that make a difference
+>>> in my print quality?
+>> It should not make any difference to use a proprietary driver or not (but
+>> you can of course install one on Mageia if you want.
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+>> Regarding printing maybe it's related to a misconfiguration of the
+>> printer (like a wrong color profile used )
+>>
+>> Regards,
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+> I am strictly a user. Any printer setup has to be program related. I use
+> both MCC > printer and HP device manager to check it. I know nothing of
+> color profiles. The install program needs to do what is necessary to
+> make it work properly. At this point I am forced to stay with ML until I
+> have at least finished my printing. One other related printer problem in
+> Mageia is that when I turned the printer off the program tries to reboot
+> and freezes up. I have to either remove the usb plug or close my open
+> programs.
+> Thanks, Gary
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+P.S. I noticed that the printed pictures in ML are slightly lighter that shown in Gimp. Is there some type of program that calibrates printer with monitor?
+Thanks, Gary
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