CUPS photo printing

[Wolfgang Gill]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 09:34 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> I'm just trying to print some photo's which I haven't done since our
> total changeover to OSS, not something we get time to do on a regular
> basis anyway, and I'm testing a Samsung 610ND colour laser printer and a
> Canon MP750 pixma printer.
> 
> After some issues with the usb on one laptop (HP - I'd recommend staying
> clear of), I finally got a couple of samples. I used photo paper one the
> pixma and high quality colour copy paper in the samsung, and the quality
> out of the samsung was pretty ordinary (to be expected, it is only a
> business colour printer) photo wise, but not too bad. When I printed out
> of the pixma though it was worse! I've seen an bjc3000 print better than
> that- in fact I haven't seen that quality since the dot matrix days!
> 
> Obviously I want to fix this so I can get good quality photos out (and
> yes, I did try the gutenprint to get this), but I was specifically
> wondering if anyone knows what the basis for the EFI Fiery filters are?
> I've worked in the print industry (DOD) as well as the tech support for
> printers, and I know for a fact that Fiery have released several server
> types with their software for producing photo quality on laser printers,
> WINNT, linux, osx. They have also embedded their software on chips. This
> is why Xerox have specifically used Fiery on the majority of their
> products for this quality that it gives them, though the cost is higher.
> 
> So I'm kinda curious how they do it. They obviously use a more direct
> connection to the printer itself, but they would use CUPS as the
> frontend surely?
> 
> Besides info on this, I do need to get a good quality photo print out of
> these printers- why else would we bother with the pixma?
> 
> Cheers guys
> 

Why don't you go checkout Turboprint. (www.turboprint.de), I use these
drivers to print photo's perfectly on my Canon Pixma MP800R. It has all
the paper settings and printing stuff.. It's worth checking out.

Wolf