Hi *, I need some help with printing. Im using Scribus 1.3.3.12 on Linux, printing system is cups. The printer is a HP ColorLaserJet with Postscript.
If I print photo jpegs with scribus, the colors are looking very bad - very pale. I tried with color management 'on' and 'off' (Document settings). The ICC profile of the printer is the official one provided by HP. For the jepgs taken by a Panasonic Lumix I don't have one, so I let the default. Now the interesting part of the story: If I print the same picture included in a kword document (office part of KDE) on the same printer with the same printing system it is looking MUCH better! So the printer is able to print better. But I like to use scribus, because kword gives less control over the document. The postscripts code is much more bigger, so the printer needs much longer to process such kword PS than a scribus PS. I guess kword is not supporting lcms, but shouldn't the result be the same with color management 'off' in scribus? What can I do to improve the output? May be this is related to the cups options (visible in printing dialog, 'Options' button after the printer selection box). I let the default there, but the same is valid for kword. Thanks for help and suggestions! Regards, Frank
