[SOLVED] Epson WF5110 produces very weak print with Libreoffice But is fine when Libreoffice is used in Windows

I love openSUSE, and swear by openSUSE, but as a backup, I always keep an Ubuntu or LinuxMint installation on hand.

If you really need it to print, but don't want to rely on Windows, have you tried seeing if you can get the printer to work on a live Cd of one of those distributions?

Also, I'd file a bug with openSUSE

Thanks wagscat123,

I've filed a list of bugs with LibreOffice, but not with Suse.

I haven't yet checked to see how other applications fare, but will do so now!

Your suggestion of a 'live' cd is a good one, thanks. I'll try that and report back.

I'll wait to see the outcome of my tests with the other applications before bringing it to the attention of Suse.

Thanks again.

I forgot about testing other applications - that's a good idea! Sometimes things won't print right from LibreOffice, and I'll export the file as a PDF and print it from Okular or Evince without having to reboot into another OS. I've never seen LibreOffice print weirdly in two different Linux distributions, but I definitely would be curious to see where future tests go.

I have reset everything, gone back and started again.

It is mostly doing what I require but to get as strong a print, such as I get from using the same program and the same printer from a windows machine, I have to select Bold for every thing. The Windows machine has the benefit of running an Epson app which allows rather more control on the machine.

That is not good for Linux imho.

I have passed these queries to LibreOffice and will close this thread although it is clearly not resolved!
Thanks all.

Best regards

Chris

See this page -->http://www.openprinting.org/printer/...WF-5110_Series

for drivers for this printer.

Originally Posted by Crb999 I've tried 6 drivers. They print better than what I had but fail to print double sided. ... Reverted to the original driver and now double sided printing doesn't work. It's getting emotional!

Have you gone into the settings/preferences for whatever application you're using to see if the printer is being set up by default to use "draft" or some sort of "ink saving" mode?

Originally Posted by rnturn Have you gone into the settings/preferences for whatever application you're using to see if the printer is being set up by default to use "draft" or some sort of "ink saving" mode?

I'm shocked no one, myself included, thought of this. YES! Please try this.

Went through that and many other stages before coming here. Thanks for the thought anyway.