{"id":1280,"date":"2015-04-02T06:18:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2015-04-02T06:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:18:47","slug":"printer-driver-for-canon-mg-7100-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/printer-driver-for-canon-mg-7100-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Printer driver for Canon MG-7100 on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I was solving a computer problem for my parents-in-law ;-). This time, it was yet another new printer they had bought &#8211; 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 &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Category<\/th>\n<th>Good setting<\/th>\n<th>Bad setting<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Job ID<\/td>\n<td>Canon-MG7100-2-671<\/td>\n<td>Canon-MG7100-665<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Driver<\/td>\n<td>CNMG7100.PPD<\/td>\n<td>STP00541.PPD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Driver Version<\/td>\n<td>1.0<\/td>\n<td>5.2.10-pre2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Description<\/td>\n<td>Canon MG7100<\/td>\n<td>Canon MG7100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Driver Version<\/td>\n<td>Canon MG7100<\/td>\n<td>Canon MG7100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Make and Model<\/td>\n<td>Canon MG7100 series Ver.4.00<\/td>\n<td>Canon MG7100 series &#8211; CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Printer<\/td>\n<td>Canon-MG7100-2<\/td>\n<td>Canon-MG7100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Hope this helps someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I was solving a computer problem for my parents-in-law ;-). This time, it was yet another new printer they had bought &#8211; a Canon MG7100. Usually, I have had a really good experience with modern Ubuntu and popular &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/printer-driver-for-canon-mg-7100-on-ubuntu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}