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Re: Canon printer minor quibble

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Canon printer minor quibble
Date 2016-09-28 12:30 +0200
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On Wed 28 Sep 2016 at 07:43:54 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:53:11PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > 
> > It wasn't cups-calibrate I was really advocating but the trying out of
> > printing a file using the Canon and Gutenprint drivers. Do both give the
> > same outcome?
> 
> Sorry Brian, I think some confusion there due to my phrasing in the 
> original post. There is, to my knowledge, no Canon-supplied Linux CUPS 
> driver for this printer. When I said some variation of "Canon iX6500 
> series driver" in my original post, I was referring to the Gutenprint 
> driver as that is what the Gutenprint driver is called.

https://www.canondrivers.org/canon-pixma-ix6500-series-driver-download/
 
> Now I will be honest, I haven't googled this recently, and don't have 
> time to even now as I am actually supposed to be in the shower and then 
> on my way to work, but I will check later... but at the time I first set 
> this printer up I could not find anything from Canon for Linux for this 
> printer. Language may have been getting in the way at the time, as this 
> particular model number is/was only ever sold in Japan to my knowledge.
> 
> In the very early days Gutenprint didn't have a driver either and I was 
> using a driver with a very approximately similar name which very 
> approximately worked... but in the fullness of time the Gutenprint 
> driver I am using appeared (or I finally saw what was in front of my 
> face, that is also possible) and I am using it now. The darkness of 
> native Linux printing, and the contrast if you will pardon the pun 
> between that and printing from Windows, didn't strike me until some time 
> later when the driver situation had been stable for some time.

A driver came in Gutenprint 5.2.10 (May 2014)

> So to the best of my knowledge I'm using the right driver, all functions 
> certainly work, and the only issue is how dark the images come out, 
> compared to the high quality results I get when I print from Windows.

The driver is marked EXPERIMENTAL, which could be because it hasn't been
extensively tested.

> Incidentally, the printer _does_ come with a driver (and a ton of 
> bloatware) for Windows. On one Windows printer I installed the driver 
> and the bloatware, on the other VM I installed the absolute minimum to 
> get the network printer to install. (and when I say network printer, I 
> mean from Windows' perspective -- this printer is not a network printer 
> as far as it is concerned, there is no ethernet port on it, the only way 
> in is USB). So the bloatware isn't the reason the printer is looking 
> better under Windows, since both VMs can print with better results (and 
> the same as each other).
> 
> So I am being drawn to the conclusion that your comments about the 
> non-existent Canon driver (it being rubbish at colour management) can be 
> applied instead to the Gutenprint driver, hence the way I perked up when 
> you mentioned cups-calibrate. Which I will try the second I get longer 
> than 5 mins in front of my PC.

You should now be able to compare the outputs of the Gutenprint and
Canon drivers. Color management support is done by cups-filters
(completed in Aug 2014) so it will be common to both drivers.

-- 
Brian.

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Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 17:00 +0200
  Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-26 18:20 +0200
    Re: Canon printer minor quibble deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 19:20 +0200
      Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 01:20 +0200
    Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 01:10 +0200
      Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-28 00:00 +0200
        Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 00:50 +0200
          Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-28 12:30 +0200
            Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 17:10 +0200
              Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-29 19:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 15:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 19:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 01:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 15:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 16:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 16:40 +0200
              Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 23:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 14:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 14:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 15:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 15:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-30 15:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 16:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 16:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-30 16:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 16:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-30 16:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 17:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-09-30 17:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-09-30 17:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 20:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Charlie <ariestao1@ipstarmail.com.au> - 2016-09-30 23:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 00:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 21:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-10-02 01:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 16:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 17:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-30 17:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-09-30 17:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 17:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 17:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 17:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 17:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-30 20:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 19:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 15:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 23:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-30 23:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 23:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 07:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 10:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-01 12:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-01 12:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 21:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-10-05 22:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-06 01:30 +0200

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