Canon S750 Printer - draft quality only?

[Don Levey]

fedora-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:17:27AM -0500, 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.
>
> Could you please try the test printer driver updates for Fedora Core
> 1?  They are in the updates-testing channel, and you need these three:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-January/msg00163.html
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-January/msg00293.html
>
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-February/msg00008.html
>
> If you try them out, please let me know if they improve quality or
> not.
>
> (The same goes for anyone else with printer driver problems in Fedora
> Core 1.)
>
> Thanks,
> Tim.
> */

Tim (et al),
I tried these, and they seemed to work once I changed the dpi to 600 instead
of 300.  Not sure why 300 was still so poor, but the 600 output was
acceptable for my purposes.  I may try some photos tonight, just for the
amusement value.

Thanks for the help,
 -Don