On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 22:31:24 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 06:05:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 00:03:38 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > Anyway will finish trying to understand that shell script later -- it > > > wants me to run it as root, no way I am doing that until I have > > > satisfied myself I know roughly what it is going to do -- and then will > > > install the driver and compare the output. > > > > Be a Debian man; dispense with that script and install the two provided > > debs with 'dpkg -i'. I don't want to spoil the fun but will mention that > > 'apt-get -f install' and Wheezy are your friends. > > > > This is what I did although in practice neither apt-get -f install nor > Wheezy were needed.
Strange. cnijfilter-ix6500series_3.50-1_amd64.deb depends on libtiff4, which in turn depends on libjeg8. Nether of these is in Jessie. Could it be you already had them on your system? > > It gets boring after the package install. A print queue is easily set up > > and printing to file gives no trouble. > > Indeed -- 2 dpkg -i invokations, and a setup of the printer in the CUPS > web admin tool, and I was done. I set up the "new" printer with a > slightly different name, so both can co-exist on the system. Looking at > the test page I could immediately see the colours were less dark with > the Canon driver. I then tried printing a couple of photos I had lying > around and they come out much better with the Canon driver. Windows > cannot print to the new CUPS printer, so clearly some of my fannying > around with AirPrint and/or samba did actually do something useful after > all. But Windows can still print, using the old printer, which has > always been good quality, and direct Linux printing can now get better > quality than before, so I am happy. > > Thanks a lot Brian for your advice with this. You're welcome. -- Brian. Who is beginning to wish Apple had renamed its printing software to SPUC.