Canon S750 Printer - draft quality only?
Don Levey
fedora-list at the-leveys.us
Mon Feb 2 21:03:38 UTC 2004
fedora-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
> Don Levey wrote:
>> I have a hybrid (win/Linux) network at home, and a Canon S750 printer
>> attached to one of my Windows machines. I am able to connect, and
>> print, to this printer using SMB print shares on my Linux machines.
>> However, the print quality seems to always be draft. The blacks are
>> grey, the colors are sparse. From Windows, I get full quality.
>
> I have a Canon BJC 2100.
> I got it to print high quality black and white by changing the
> settings in the "Gnome Print Manager/ Driver Options". I played with
> several settings. I believe what worked was changing the Media type.
> As you may be aware, the Windows drivers change to high quality only
> when you tell it you have superior paper, so this is not a surprise.
>
> Since I am printing only text from my Linux box, I also changed the
> "output type" to Black and White.
>
> Changing the "quality" parameter to a higher DPI did nothing.
>
> YMMV
>
> Robert
>
>
>> This printer does not show in the list of printers I can set up from
>> within FC1. I choose a Canon S800, or S600, as well as BJC 8200,
>> with identical results. Canon of course has no Linux info or
>> drivers; when I need another printer I'll get one which is
>> compatible. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Has anyone
>> gotten this to print with decent quality? I see sites using a Google
>> search, but I only read English :-(
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Don
Hmm... PLease forgive my ignorance. I use KDE; would that print manager
be available to me?
-Don
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