On Tue 27 Sep 2016 at 08:09:07 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 05:17:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > The colour abnormality could be simply be because the Canon driver is > > rubbish at colour management or it needs adjusting. There is a driver in > > printer-driver-gutenprint which is for your printer; I'd suggest testing > > that with the printer. It comes with the cups-calibrate program. > > > > Thanks. I am using the Gutenprint driver. I see cups-calibrate in my > future -- didn't know that existed. I'd been sort of hidebound by the > assumption that everything from Windows must have been going through the > same CUPS path as everything from Linux -- but the evidence sort of > disproves that doesn't it. Thanks, I'll look into cups-calibrate.
It wasn't cups-calibrate I was really advocating but the trying out of printing a file using the Canon and Gutenprint drivers. Do both give the same outcome? -- Brian.