Re: Colour printing question.

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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.

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