[TriLUG] Picture Printing and HPLIP

Ken M ken at mack-z.com
Mon Dec 15 17:28:01 EST 2014


I think I need to learn how color management is actually supposed to work and how I should integrate that to my printing solution.  I will keep plugging and see what I find.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 05:24:37PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On 12/15/2014 02:38 PM, Ken M wrote:
> > Now I understand they have a much higher quality printer than I do, but it seems that if the issue is adjusting my image to the printer because of the presentation of my monitor that printing the same image on their printer would lead to the same dark results.  At least that is my uninformed opinion.
> 
> Keep in mind that it's possible that they may have automatically
> adjusted the photo for their printer.
> 
> > I think the weird thing I got going on here is there are three different print solutions on this machine at not one of them is the whole package.  Incidentally I tried using lpoption and lp commands and I can get it to hold like that but the print out is not fitting on the page that way either.
> 
> It does sound like something unusual is happening, but sadly I cannot
> offer assistance.
> 


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