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poor print quality using gimp in OSX
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Hi,
recently bought a Tibook and switching over from pc's. At first I couldn't print to my laserjet 5N, but was advised to install gimp print, which I did and the printer works.
However, the quality if pretty poor. It looks as though it's been printed on a hi-res dot matrix printer, rather than the smooth solid printing you expect from a laserjet. it also comes out paler than normal.
I've checked everything I can, and I get fine results printing from the pc.
Anyone suggest a solution.
Cheers,
J.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Did you set you the printer through CUPS after installing the GIMP-Print software?
Use> http://localhost:631
Until this is set it may assume very basic printer capability.
Good Luck . . .
My Brother HL-1240 Laser Printer on a Debian Linux Samba Server prints wonderfully over the Airport Connection to the Linksys router with GIMP/Ghostscript/CUPS
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Originally posted by mofu:
Did you set you the printer through CUPS after installing the GIMP-Print software?
Use> http://localhost:631
Until this is set it may assume very basic printer capability.
Good Luck . . .
My Brother HL-1240 Laser Printer on a Debian Linux Samba Server prints wonderfully over the Airport Connection to the Linksys router with GIMP/Ghostscript/CUPS
Not sure I quite follow how you would do this. I installed gimp print and then used print center to install the printer.
How would you set a printer through cups?
Thanks for the reply, and I'm grateful for the advice if you can post a follow up.
Cheers,
J.
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RTFM. . . . .
Sorry, like I said open a browser, and type: http://localhost:631
This opens the CUPS service web page, go thru the picks to set up a new printer.
The only trick part is setting the device path correctly, but there are example someplace (either in CUPS, or the readme files). Other than that its a matter of picking stuff from pull down menus.
Give it a try . . . and let us know.
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Originally posted by mofu:
RTFM. . . . .
Sorry, like I said open a browser, and type: http://localhost:631
Doh, I didn't try that, didn't occur to me that the system would be available through the web browser.
Went through and just changed the resolution from 300x300 to 600x600 and it's now much sharper, as I would have expected it to be.
Many thanks for the help,
J.
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