Print Quality Problems -- Epson WF-3620/Linux Mint 13

I just got an Epson WF-3620 all-in-one printer last week, to replace an older Epson WF 600 all-in-one. Both of these printers use the same universal Linux driver; it is identified on the Epson website as the ESC/P-R generic driver, version 1.4.4.

With my older Epson WF 600, I had no problems with print quality. With the new printer, copies look great, and test pages are perfect, but when I try to print a document from my hard drive, I get something that looks like a draft-quality printout. Blacks come out pale gray, and anything less than black drops out completely. I've tried changing the media type from plain papers-draft to plain papers-high in Properties/Printer Options, as recommended to another poster with the same problem on forums.openprinting.org, but this didn't work for me.

I tried calling Epson, just on the off chance that I'd get someone familiar with Linux, but wasn't lucky this time. Epson officially doesn't support Linux. I managed after some effort to get them to tell me the procedure for adjusting the print quality in Windows and Mac, just in case I could extrapolate it to Linux, but the menus are completely different.

My computer is a Dell Inspiron 580s desktop. I am running Linux Mint 13.

If no one knows a fix for this, one other thing that would be helpful is any recommendations for other all-in-one printer brands that support Linux. Thanks.

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Arch linux, lxdm/lxde, recent installation, feeling I must be doing something stupid, would be glad to be guided!

I have a Brother HL-2030 printer connected to a Raspberry Pi as a print server, CUPS setup, with sharing turned on. Other machines in the household, and indeed other OS's on the machine I'm writing on, print trouble-free to this printer.

On *this* desktop machine, (with libcups installed,) other programs print trouble-free. Firefox, Thunderbird, geany and evince all detect the presence of the network printer, and work as expected.

It's just Libreoffice that does not. This is true both of libreoffice-fresh and libreoffice-still, and it is true for all the components (write, draw, calc etc).

Libreoffice *does* find the network printer from other OS's that I play with; I have Puppy and Mint on the same machine, but those installs of Libreoffice are obviously different/earlier versions (nor do I feel like upgrading them in the circumstances!)

In this context, though, the Libreoffice "File>Printer settings..." menu offers me only a "Generic Printer" (whose properties and options I can edit). If I ask Libreoffice to print to this generic printer, it reports no failure, but that task just seems to disappear into thin air.

On the Pi server, /var/log/cups/ offers

Code:

# extract from /var/log/cups/access_log
# [...snip]
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 566 CUPS-Get-Printers server-error-version-not-supported
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] "POST /printers/Brother_HL-2030_series HTTP/1.1" 200 15824 Print-Job successful-ok
# the above line logs a successful print from geany
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:26:40 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 673 CUPS-Get-Default server-error-version-not-supported


# extract of /var/log/cups/error_log
# [...snip]
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:20 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:20 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:26:40 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Default (no URI) from 192.168.2.2

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This machine running Xubuntu only will print the simplest of documents. The printer setup will print a test page, Text files will print, AbiWord files will print, PDF files and HTML pages displayed in Firefox do not print.
I have been taking some stabs at trying to fix this problem by changing some settings. but no joy.
Has anyone seen an issue like this? Any pointers/ideas on where to actually look for the problem.
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Hi,
Decided to dip my toe in the Linux pool with Puppy 5.2.8 from a magazine cover disc. I would like to use it with my faithful old Samsung SF-4300 C SmartJet printer but this model is not listed on the printer set-up menu. Anyone out there managed to make this connection?

The PC is a Dell Dimension 4550 Series with Win XP installed but I suspect the hard drive is on the blink, hence my interest in a RAM-based alternative.

I would be very grateful for your suggestions.

Bob

Fedora 19 + CUPS + Brother DCP-J925DW

Hello,

Using Fedora 19 (Gnome)

I am unable to print on my Printer : Brother DCP-J925DW

I have followed these intructions on installing the printer driver : http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...ion_prn1a.html

The drivers needed are installed :

[root@jonashp Jonas]# rpm -qa | grep -e cups -e lpr
bluez-cups-4.101-9.fc19.x86_64
cups-filesystem-1.6.4-2.fc19.noarch
cups-filters-1.0.40-4.fc19.x86_64
python-cups-1.9.63-4.fc19.x86_64
cups-libs-1.6.4-2.fc19.x86_64
cups-pk-helper-0.2.4-2.fc19.x86_64
cups-1.6.4-2.fc19.x86_64
gutenprint-cups-5.2.9-11.fc19.x86_64
dcpj925dwlpr-3.0.1-1.i386
cups-filters-libs-1.0.40-4.fc19.x86_64
dcpj925dwcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386

But when I try to print a pdf document or a test page via cups website (http://localhost:631/printers) nothing happens.

I tried with network :

Description: DCP-J925DW
Location:
Driver: Brother DCP-J925DW CUPS (color, 2-sided printing)
Connection: lpd://192.168.1.110/binary_p1
Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided

Status according to CUPS : DCP-J925DW (Idle, Accepting Jobs, Not Shared)

I have tried with usb and let Fedora detect and auto-install the printer : printing does not work.

What else can I try ?

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