[Scribus] Printing terms and Printers

Hal V. Engel hvengel
Wed Jan 3 20:12:52 CET 2007


On Wednesday 03 January 2007 05:53, Henry Hartley wrote:
> Pierre-Luc Auclair wrote:
> >> > > Altering any  or all these stops my Cannon S520 from
> >> > > printing.
> >>
> >> I have the same printer connected under Linux. It's a POS under
> >> linux, just to warn you. The only way I can make it run "decently"
> >> is under the TurboPrint driver, which is much better, but still far
> >> from what the printer can achieve under windows.
>
> And unfortunately TurboPrint is not free.  With the CUPS driver my Canon
> S630 only prints the yellow and a little of the red from any image.
> Black text is left out completely.  Useless.

Have you tried the gutenprint driver for this printer?  The gutenprint web 
site says it is supported.  In any case it is worth a try since it costs you 
nothing other than some time to install, configure and test it.  I use the 
gutenprint drivers with both HP and Epson printers and I am getting good 
results YMMV.



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