[Mageia-discuss] HP Printer

Sat Jun 23 15:07:27 CEST 2012

On 06/23/2012 06:10 AM, Len Lawrence wrote:
+> 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:
+>>> [...]
+>>>> 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
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+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
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