Hi, I recently switched to Ubuntu at home (was using it more then 2 years at work), and in general I'm very happy.
Although there is a slight problem with a printer.
I'm using Canon MG6350 (wifi, multifunction, 6 inks) and I'm using Canon's official drivers. Which works well, but:
- I cannot switch color mode to CMYK (and red colour is more of an orange on ubuntu test page)
- I cannot select resolution other than 600dpi
- No updates of ink levels
Yesterday I've used Cups + Gutenprint builtin drivers but for MG6200 (no MG6300 drivers). I can see ink levels there, and select CMYK (and others), and select higher dpi, but although printer seems to receive commands (receiving data message is displayed on LCD), nothing is printed. Funny thing is that it does after-print beep, but nothing is printed, it just is processing something, and then beeps.
So i guess something is wrong with the driver.
I've tried manually to add CMYK option to ppd file (in /etc/cups/ppd/), after making backup of course, but it doesn't seem to work (window properties crashes).
I have few questions:
- Can I expect cups+gutenprint support of my printer in nearest future?
- Are there other drivers I could use?
- Is my problem with color might have something to do with Color Mode: RGB set (and no option to choose CMYK)
- What about color profile ICC file - can it help to solve orange problem (I found some various ICC files on windows driver CD, and added them in settings but I'm not sure how, or if they work)
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