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Tim
Hi,
I just bought an HP Photosmart C6180 all-in-one to hook up to my debian box.
Anyone else seen this effect, printing from CF card onto glossy photo paper?
http://www.infomax.co.uk/hp/Calibrate-PhotoPaper.jpg
(That's a 300 dpi scan of the result)
Looks to me like the printer has "forgotten" to use any black ink. However,
printing from CF card onto plain cheap A4 seems to work fine, cf:
http://www.infomax.co.uk/hp/Calibrate-PlainPaper.jpg
original JPEG is here: http://www.infomax.co.uk/hp/Calibrate-Original.jpg
I was careful to select the correct output media - in fact I tried
several "photo paper" output options. Similar effects occur when printing
from the PC, plain paper is fine, photo paper is missing black.
One might assume the printer is FOOBAR'd - in fact it's had this problem for
all of the 3 weeks I've had it. Returning it is a hassle, so I was just
checking out before sending it back in case it is one of those id10t
errors!
In every other respect, the printer is excellent, and the ability to perform
network scanning to xsane under linux is superb.
Unfortunately, HP's sub-continental nohelp-desk are about as useful as a
cotton-wool ashtray
No surprise there then.
Cheers
Tim
I just bought an HP Photosmart C6180 all-in-one to hook up to my debian box.
Anyone else seen this effect, printing from CF card onto glossy photo paper?
http://www.infomax.co.uk/hp/Calibrate-PhotoPaper.jpg
(That's a 300 dpi scan of the result)
Looks to me like the printer has "forgotten" to use any black ink. However,
printing from CF card onto plain cheap A4 seems to work fine, cf:
http://www.infomax.co.uk/hp/Calibrate-PlainPaper.jpg
original JPEG is here: http://www.infomax.co.uk/hp/Calibrate-Original.jpg
I was careful to select the correct output media - in fact I tried
several "photo paper" output options. Similar effects occur when printing
from the PC, plain paper is fine, photo paper is missing black.
One might assume the printer is FOOBAR'd - in fact it's had this problem for
all of the 3 weeks I've had it. Returning it is a hassle, so I was just
checking out before sending it back in case it is one of those id10t
errors!
In every other respect, the printer is excellent, and the ability to perform
network scanning to xsane under linux is superb.
Unfortunately, HP's sub-continental nohelp-desk are about as useful as a
cotton-wool ashtray
![Frown :( :(](/styles/default/custom/smilies/frown.gif)
Cheers
Tim