color problem (pictures added)
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 4:47 am
I was in System > Printers to try to set print paper size in MATE 16.04 last night, and gave in to the impulse to print a test page.
Astonishment and delight! It came out the way it should, no smearing or blurring of colors! As I complained just over two years ago, printing anything in color from Ubuntu 12.04 resulted in really messed up colors. Black and white would often come out fine, but even that would sometimes get pink or yellow smearing. Christian gave me a lot of advice how to fix it, but I never succeeded in making it work, so I was really happy to see that apparently MATE had fixed it automatically.
This morning I tried printing a screen save I had made sometime back, with high hopes. Hopes dashed; it came out with colors blurred.
I tried the printer test page again, and again it was perfect!
With 12.04 when I would go to printer configuration, I would be given the option of selecting printer brand and model, and then choosing the closest printer driver available. It was never specifically for my HP Officejet 6700. Now in MATE, my printer is already there, and no simple way to change it. I could delete it, or change the Properties if I had reason to. But now, according to some /etc/cups files as well as annotation on the Printer test page, I seem to have a proper hp-officejet_6700.ppd, Driver Version (hpcups) 3.16.3. So I wonder what is still wrong?
Just in case people can't picture the problem, I will add two pictures.
This is why it was so important that I could copy to and from a flash drive with MATE (for a while I could not). I need to copy screen saves and documents made with Scribus over to AOS 4.1FE for printing. Drat!
Astonishment and delight! It came out the way it should, no smearing or blurring of colors! As I complained just over two years ago, printing anything in color from Ubuntu 12.04 resulted in really messed up colors. Black and white would often come out fine, but even that would sometimes get pink or yellow smearing. Christian gave me a lot of advice how to fix it, but I never succeeded in making it work, so I was really happy to see that apparently MATE had fixed it automatically.
This morning I tried printing a screen save I had made sometime back, with high hopes. Hopes dashed; it came out with colors blurred.
I tried the printer test page again, and again it was perfect!
With 12.04 when I would go to printer configuration, I would be given the option of selecting printer brand and model, and then choosing the closest printer driver available. It was never specifically for my HP Officejet 6700. Now in MATE, my printer is already there, and no simple way to change it. I could delete it, or change the Properties if I had reason to. But now, according to some /etc/cups files as well as annotation on the Printer test page, I seem to have a proper hp-officejet_6700.ppd, Driver Version (hpcups) 3.16.3. So I wonder what is still wrong?
Just in case people can't picture the problem, I will add two pictures.
This is why it was so important that I could copy to and from a flash drive with MATE (for a while I could not). I need to copy screen saves and documents made with Scribus over to AOS 4.1FE for printing. Drat!