On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 00:50 +1000, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > 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 I'll check it out. From what I see so far it seems like a linux version of Fiery, so we're on the right track then. Never heard of it before though- how'd you find it? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
