[Mageia-discuss] HP Printer

Sat Jun 23 01:23:16 CEST 2012

+
+On 06/22/2012 05:36 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
+> On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 15:36 -0400, Gary Montalbine wrote:
+> [...]
+>> I have an LCD monitor.
+>
+> they still need to be calibrated.
+>
+>>   This old man is strictly a user. I was hoping
+>> that someone that was using an HP in Mageia with good results might
+>> provide a model number.
+>
+> A google search shows lots of people, including people happy with the HP
+> Photosmart Plus B209a.
+>
+>
+>> My needs are simple. I want to
+>> be able to use it as a copier and most important, is color printing that
+>> matches within reason the colors on my monitor.
+>
+> You need to calibrate the monitor properly, so that it displays the
+> colours that will print.
+>
+> If you use the printer as a copier, do the colours come out different
+> from the original?
+>
+> Without saying in much more detail what problems you are having, we are
+> trying to use telepathy to read your mind and guess, and it's not
+> working ;-)
+>
+>>   My current printer is
+>> not mageia compatible.
+>
+> This appears not to be correct - other people are using the same printer
+> with Mageia Linux.
+>
+>>   Monitor color calibration will not correct it.
+>
+> Why do you say this? You may be right, but without knowing what is not
+> work,ing we can't help.
+>
+> Some possible problems you might be having:
+> * you scan an image and the reds come out as blue, and the blues come
+> out as red.
+> * you scan an image and the resolution is too low
+> * you can't scan an image at all
+> * you print and it comes out in black and white, not colour
+> * you are printing on office paper and the output is too dark
+> * you are printing on photopaper and the result is too light
+> * colours are too saturated when you print
+> * colours are too light when you print
+> * you can't print a full-page image
+> * when you press the copy button on the printer, the upstairs toilet
+> flushes.
+
+The outhouse is too far away when it rains.
+>
+> Does the printer work OK on OS X or Windows? If so, with which colour
+> profile?
+>
+> Come on, give us a clue :-)
+
+Look here:
+
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2463
+
+Gary
+
+