On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 09:34 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > I'm just trying to print some photo's which I haven't done since our > total changeover to OSS, not something we get time to do on a regular > basis anyway, and I'm testing a Samsung 610ND colour laser printer and a > Canon MP750 pixma printer. > > After some issues with the usb on one laptop (HP - I'd recommend staying > clear of), I finally got a couple of samples. I used photo paper one the > pixma and high quality colour copy paper in the samsung, and the quality > out of the samsung was pretty ordinary (to be expected, it is only a > business colour printer) photo wise, but not too bad. When I printed out > of the pixma though it was worse! I've seen an bjc3000 print better than > that- in fact I haven't seen that quality since the dot matrix days! > > Obviously I want to fix this so I can get good quality photos out (and > yes, I did try the gutenprint to get this), but I was specifically > wondering if anyone knows what the basis for the EFI Fiery filters are? > I've worked in the print industry (DOD) as well as the tech support for > printers, and I know for a fact that Fiery have released several server > types with their software for producing photo quality on laser printers, > WINNT, linux, osx. They have also embedded their software on chips. This > is why Xerox have specifically used Fiery on the majority of their > products for this quality that it gives them, though the cost is higher. > > So I'm kinda curious how they do it. They obviously use a more direct > connection to the printer itself, but they would use CUPS as the > frontend surely? > > Besides info on this, I do need to get a good quality photo print out of > these printers- why else would we bother with the pixma? > > Cheers guys > Why don't you go checkout Turboprint. (www.turboprint.de), I use these drivers to print photo's perfectly on my Canon Pixma MP800R. It has all the paper settings and printing stuff.. It's worth checking out. Wolf -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
