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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
