Once again I was solving a computer problem for my parents-in-law ;-). This time, it was yet another new printer they had bought – a Canon MG7100. Usually, I have had a really good experience with modern Ubuntu and popular printers. They Just Work. And this time it seemed things had gone well again. And they almost had. Except the colours were a bit off. On the Ubuntu printer test page Magenta was brown, bright green was instead a darker green, and yellow was very muddy – more like taupe. I wasted a lot of time cleaning ink nozzles etc etc but the actual solution was to choose a slightly different driver manually from the Canon list. There were two v4.0 options and it was the second that worked.
Category | Good setting | Bad setting |
---|---|---|
Job ID | Canon-MG7100-2-671 | Canon-MG7100-665 |
Driver | CNMG7100.PPD | STP00541.PPD |
Driver Version | 1.0 | 5.2.10-pre2 |
Description | Canon MG7100 | Canon MG7100 |
Driver Version | Canon MG7100 | Canon MG7100 |
Make and Model | Canon MG7100 series Ver.4.00 | Canon MG7100 series – CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.10 |
Printer | Canon-MG7100-2 | Canon-MG7100 |
Hope this helps someone else.
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