Canon S750 Printer - draft quality only?

[Robert Echlin]

Don Levey wrote:
> I have a hybrid (win/Linux) network at home, and a Canon S750 printer
> attached to one of my Windows machines.  I am able to connect, and
> print, to this printer using SMB print shares on my Linux machines. 
> However, the print quality seems to always be draft.  The blacks are
> grey, the colors are sparse.  From Windows, I get full quality.    

I have a Canon BJC 2100.
I got it to print high quality black and white by changing the settings 
in the "Gnome Print Manager/ Driver Options". I played with several 
settings. I believe what worked was changing the Media type.
As you may be aware, the Windows drivers change to high quality only 
when you tell it you have superior paper, so this is not a surprise.

Since I am printing only text from my Linux box, I also changed the 
"output type" to Black and White.

Changing the "quality" parameter to a higher DPI did nothing.

YMMV

Robert


> This printer does not show in the list of printers I can set up from
> within FC1.  I choose a Canon S800, or S600, as well as BJC 8200,
> with identical results.  Canon of course has no Linux info or
> drivers; when I need another printer I'll get one which is
> compatible.  Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?  Has anyone
> gotten this to print with decent quality?  I see sites using a Google
> search, but I only read English  :-(      
> 
> Thanks,
>  -Don
> 
> 
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