RE: Canon S750 Printer - draft quality only?

["Don Levey" <fedora-list the-leveys us>]

fedora-list-admin redhat com wrote:
> Don Levey wrote:
>> I have a hybrid (win/Linux) network at home, and a Canon S750 printer
>> attached to one of my Windows machines.  I am able to connect, and
>> print, to this printer using SMB print shares on my Linux machines.
>> However, the print quality seems to always be draft.  The blacks are
>> grey, the colors are sparse.  From Windows, I get full quality.
> 
> I have a Canon BJC 2100.
> I got it to print high quality black and white by changing the
> settings in the "Gnome Print Manager/ Driver Options". I played with
> several settings. I believe what worked was changing the Media type.
> As you may be aware, the Windows drivers change to high quality only
> when you tell it you have superior paper, so this is not a surprise.
> 
> Since I am printing only text from my Linux box, I also changed the
> "output type" to Black and White.
> 
> Changing the "quality" parameter to a higher DPI did nothing.
> 
> YMMV
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
>> This printer does not show in the list of printers I can set up from
>> within FC1.  I choose a Canon S800, or S600, as well as BJC 8200,
>> with identical results.  Canon of course has no Linux info or
>> drivers; when I need another printer I'll get one which is
>> compatible.  Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?  Has anyone
>> gotten this to print with decent quality?  I see sites using a Google
>> search, but I only read English  :-(
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>  -Don

Hmm... PLease forgive my ignorance.  I use KDE; would that print manager 
be available to me?

 -Don