[Mageia-discuss] HP Printer

Sat Jun 23 15:39:47 CEST 2012

On 23/06/12 14:07, TJ wrote:
+> 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
+>
+>
+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
+
+