Hello,

2 or 3 years ago, I switched from ubuntu to mint.
Since then I can't print anymore graphics or photos in high resolution.
My printer is a HP deskjet F380; it is detected as F300 and the driver is the standard hplip.
I see some gutenprint references in installed packages.
It seems all graphic print is in draft quality, either from g-thumb or gimp.
I have mint 17 but it was the same with mint 16, 13, and 10.
I also tried ubuntu 12.04 with the same poor results.
The printer works fine under ubuntu 10.04.

Thanks for your help.
hhall.

Have you tried setting options to the printer under the web interface

http://localhost:631

Sorry for my late answer,

I ran some printing from the web interface, but without any improvement.
I made some setting modification through menu/system/administration/printers and properties.
Then, by testing the printer status (lpoptions -p Deskjet_F300 -l), I can see my default settings (size, cartridge, paper).
Also , I don't understand the role of the different pieces of software : cups, hplip, hpijs, gutenprint.

Thanks for your help.

Does that mean you are sorted? Mark this solved, then.

Hello,

I realise my answer was incomplete.
The fact is despite my settings are correctly set, as cup's web unterface shows, the print quality is not as intended.

Sorry.

Best regards.
hhall

usually that's a ppd file issue. I wish you well finding the right one.

Hello business kid,

Synaptic shows that both hp-ppd and hpijs-ppds were installed from mint repository.
I can see also hplip and hpijs were in the ubuntu 10.04 installed packages.
On top of that, in each system, there are other packages:
cups, gutenprint and openprinting, but I can't say wich of them are relevant.

Thanks.
hhall.

You need one ppd, in my experience, no more. I am skeptical of printing programs calling printing programs. Cups is a scheduler/server - you can print directly with gs.