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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] HP Printer</H1>
<B>Len Lawrence</B>
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<I>Sat Jun 23 15:39:47 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 23/06/12 14:07, TJ wrote:
><i> On 06/23/2012 06:10 AM, Len Lawrence wrote:
</I>>><i> On 23/06/12 03:01, Gary Montalbine wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> On 06/22/2012 08:56 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
</I>>>>><i> On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 20:01 -0400, Gary Montalbine wrote:
</I>>>>><i> [...]
</I>>>>>><i> Angelo's fixes made the color much better. The print was still
</I>>>>>><i> slightly
</I>>>>>><i> darker but usable. Print quality has gradually decreased since
</I>>>>>><i> 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
</I>>>>><i> 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
</I>>>>><i> 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
</I>>>>><i> 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> I've had what looks to my untrained eye like decent success printing
</I>><i> from The GIMP on my Officejet 6110 - and my Deskjet 5650.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> TJ
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>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
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