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.
