Change Print Quality

woody22075 · Post by **woody22075** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:01 am

I just upgraded from Mint 13 to Mint 17. In Mint 13, I could select print quality (a setting between 1 and 4) in the system dialogue. However, I am not able to find such an option in the system dialogue in Mint 17. I prefer to lower the print quality to save ink on drafts, etc. Any idea on how I can manipulate the print quality?

Thank you for your help!

M

austin.texas · Post by **austin.texas** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:44 am

What printer do you have?

woody22075 · Post by **woody22075** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:33 am

The same Canon PIXMA MG4250. I have a lot of options with respect to printing (from the system dialogue) but no longer have the option for varying print quality.

jimallyn · Post by **jimallyn** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 3:54 pm

You can reduce your ink consumption by using the EcoFont, too. They have a bunch of fonts they want to sell you, but they have one font you can download for free.

http://www.ecofont.com/en/products/gree ... -font.html

woody22075 · Post by **woody22075** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 4:23 pm

Thanks for the tip! I would like to restore the ability to reduce print quality in general as well as I (sadly) have a lot of (draft) images that require printing as well.

m.

pdc_2 · Post by **pdc_2** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:50 pm

if you are using cinnamon (as we are) we found the command

system-config-printer

from a terminal or Alt-F2 ............gives the dialogue box that perhaps allows more tweaks of settings

woody22075 · Post by **woody22075** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 7:04 am

Thanks. I have tried that as well. I have two options for print quality 'standard' or 'manual'. but manual has no settings to manually change (and seems to print at the same v. high quality as 'standard').

m.

pdc_2 · Post by **pdc_2** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 5:08 pm

Canon make a utility that is part of their linux drivers: I enclose a snapshot that shows the screen for our MG3100 series

if you click on this link http://localhost:631/printers/ and look in the right-hand column: under Make & Model: does it say gutenprint for your MG4200 series device?

If it is, I can give you instructions for installing the Canon drivers; and you can evaluate those alongside a gutenprint (if that is what you have): and you get the Canon utility

woody22075 · Post by **woody22075** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 5:27 pm

Dear pdc_2,

I do have Gutenprint in the cups make and model description. Can you give me direction with respect to the Canon driver?

Thanks!

m.

pdc_2 · Post by **pdc_2** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 7:22 pm

If you go here http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/cont ... tml?r=s&q= and click to download and SAVE you will be getting cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-deb.tar.gz

this is the 3.8 series driver; and till 4.0 they need libtiff4 (which ubuntu has withdrawn) so before installing the printer driver, you need libtiff4

.....it may well be in the Mint repositories ( I would use synaptic to find it); if not there, you can get it from Debian: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tiff3/ if you use this link, go about 14 down the list to find the 32 or 64bit you need

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then to install the printer driver, if you open a terminal and paste in these commands; line by line; (hitting ENTER after each paste!!)

cd Downloads
tar -zxvf cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-deb.tar.gz
cd cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-deb
./install.sh

that should run the install script; it will ask you for your sudo password
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to run the Canon utility the command is

cngpij -P MG4200USB

and if all is good, one sets up a launcher: with Cinnamon the launcher is on the desktop and you can also set it to the tool bar and menu

woody22075 · Post by **woody22075** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:25 pm

Thanks for the details. Install script runs fine but when I try to run 'cngpij -P [printer_name]' I receive:

ERROR: The specified printer is not supported.

very odd. Any ideas?

At any rate, thanks again for the help!

m.

woody22075 · Post by **woody22075** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:45 pm

oh, how odd--I do now have print quality settings although there seem to be some anomalous error msg's (as previously mentioned). Thanks so much for that! You have saved me much future ink!

m.

pdc_2 · Post by **pdc_2** » Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:35 pm

Canon provide a guide http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/cont ... tml?r=s&q=

have a read through it; I download it into our Downloads folder: I open with archive manager; then from within that EXTRACT to a folder .......... and then click on the SHOW FILES icon that appears; the crucial step is right-click on the guide_index.htm icon and select "Open with Firefox" and then the guide is revealed in Firefox in all its glory; and then you can bookmark it ...................

the structure of the command is

cngpijmnt [printer_name]

so if the printer is called MG4200 the command is

cngpijmnt MG4200

.....have a look here http://localhost:631/printers/ and see what name it has ........ours for some reason had the USB added!

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