I have an HP Photosmart 8400 printer which can be accessed from both a linux box and a windows box. When printing the same image from the two boxes the windows print is far superior to the linux print. I have used for testing an image scanned by a flat bed scanner (HP ScanJet 7400c) and the colours from the windows print are very close to the original document. The linux print looks somewhat misty. How can I change the printing software so it will produce more natural colours?
HP PhotoSmart 8400 Foomatic/hpijs kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64
On 06/02/2011 03:14 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
I have an HP Photosmart 8400 printer which can be accessed from both a linux box and a windows box. When printing the same image from the two boxes the windows print is far superior to the linux print. I have used for testing an image scanned by a flat bed scanner (HP ScanJet 7400c) and the colours from the windows print are very close to the original document. The linux print looks somewhat misty. How can I change the printing software so it will produce more natural colours?
HP PhotoSmart 8400 Foomatic/hpijs kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64
Check printing options to make sure you don't have options like "ink saver" and that the DPI is reasonably high. If that doesn't help, check if windows driver installed a color profile for the printer - you'll want to install it in Fedora, too.
On 03/06/11 00:29, Konstantin Svist wrote:
On 06/02/2011 03:14 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
I have an HP Photosmart 8400 printer which can be accessed from both a linux box and a windows box. When printing the same image from the two boxes the windows print is far superior to the linux print. I have used for testing an image scanned by a flat bed scanner (HP ScanJet 7400c) and the colours from the windows print are very close to the original document. The linux print looks somewhat misty. How can I change the printing software so it will produce more natural colours?
HP PhotoSmart 8400 Foomatic/hpijs kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64
Check printing options to make sure you don't have options like "ink saver" and that the DPI is reasonably high. If that doesn't help, check if windows driver installed a color profile for the printer - you'll want to install it in Fedora, too.
Thanks for replying.
There is no "ink saver" option or the like and DPI is set to 600. I can't find any colour profile in windows and I don't know where to look for similar file in Fedora.
However, I find in the printing settings values like Saturation = 100%, Hue adjustment = 0 and Gamma = 1000. Tweaking these values does change the colour impression somewhat but I haven't found the "correct" combination. So I assume I'll have to continue tweaking until I am satisfied. I wish there were a description on how to.
On 07/06/11 17:56, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
On 03/06/11 00:29, Konstantin Svist wrote:
On 06/02/2011 03:14 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
I have an HP Photosmart 8400 printer which can be accessed from both a linux box and a windows box. When printing the same image from the two boxes the windows print is far superior to the linux print. I have used for testing an image scanned by a flat bed scanner (HP ScanJet 7400c) and the colours from the windows print are very close to the original document. The linux print looks somewhat misty. How can I change the printing software so it will produce more natural colours?
HP PhotoSmart 8400 Foomatic/hpijs kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64
Check printing options to make sure you don't have options like "ink saver" and that the DPI is reasonably high. If that doesn't help, check if windows driver installed a color profile for the printer - you'll want to install it in Fedora, too.
Thanks for replying.
There is no "ink saver" option or the like and DPI is set to 600. I can't find any colour profile in windows and I don't know where to look for similar file in Fedora.
However, I find in the printing settings values like Saturation = 100%, Hue adjustment = 0 and Gamma = 1000. Tweaking these values does change the colour impression somewhat but I haven't found the "correct" combination. So I assume I'll have to continue tweaking until I am satisfied. I wish there were a description on how to.
Changing Saturation to 200 did the trick.
On 08/06/11 10:29, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 22:35 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
Changing Saturation to 200 did the trick.
It would be helpful if you could file a bug report so that we can hopefully make that the default behaviour for that printer at 100% saturation in future.
Thanks, Tim. */
Done.
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