The driver in my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop is Epsons, and the results are gorgeous, probably because if I select the high grade epson glossy paper, it knows exactly what is needed.
In my Ubuntu 18.04 machine I used the Linux driver, and the options are fewer, and the results are poor, a lot of banding even when using a 58Mb tiff file. So I will be working tonight. Andrew On Tue, 22 May 2018, 12:35 pm Craig Sanders via luv-main, < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 01:13:27AM +1000, Andrew Greig wrote: > > Andrew Greig wrote > > > > I need to install some drivers for an Epson XP 6000 and it depends on > Linux > > Standard Base 3.2 > > > > > Craig replied > > > > It's always a bad idea to install proprietary drivers from manufacturers. > > > > IMO, that should only be done if there aren't any open source drivers and > > you've already bought the hardware - if you haven't bought it yet, look > for > > an alternative with open source drivers. > > Change that to read: > > "It's almost always a bad idea to install proprietary drivers from > manufacturers. > > IMO, that should only be done if there aren't any open source drivers > and > you've already bought the hardware, or if the open source driver is > crap > compared to the proprietary driver. Otherwise, if you haven't bought > it > yet, look for an alternative with open source drivers." > > > I still use the proprietary nvidia driver for my GPU - it's much better > than > the open source nouveau driver. I'd prefer not to do that but every time I > try nouveau, it's just not as good (most recently, a few days ago on my new > desktop machine) > > > > After I installed the lsb, my printer was loaded and configured > > automatically in my desktop computer. > > > > I did not install the lsb in my laptop Ubuntu 16.04 last week, but I did > > load the Epson drivers without issue. > > I doubt that the lsb package would have any direct effect on the print > quality > - just that the driver on your new ubuntu 18.04 machine depends on it, > while > the driver in 16.04 doesn't. > > That could mean 18.04 has a new version of the same driver, or maybe a > completely different driver. > > > And when I printed one of my images in tiff (75Mb) on a 10"x 8" high > quality > > inkjet paper I obtained a gorgeous output, no sign of banding, skin tone > was > > perfect. The Epson output from my desktop Ubuntu 18.04 was awful, clour > > was wrong gamma was wrong and it suffered from banding. I have to get > some > > sleep now but tomorrow I shall print the same tiff from my laptop, and > then > > I will know if the problem is the Linux driver. > > is it the same driver on both machines? or is one proprietary and one > open-source? > > or maybe different versions of the same driver? different configuration > options? > > craig > > -- > craig sanders <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main >
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