canon MX922 print quality

[pegasis]

Hello

my printer was printing ok, but started printing poorly, (barley visible)

I can run a test print and the print is great, but any other print is fuzzy, barely visible.

is there some setting I need to adjust?

Thanks

[pegasis]

any suggestions?

[brian_p]

any suggestions?

Apart from the printer make and model, your original post contained little information.

Mint version? USB or network? Canon drivers installed? The output of

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lpstat -t

[pegasis]

cannon MX922

scheduler is running
system default destination: Canon-MX920-series
device for Canon-MX920-series: usb://Canon/MX920%20series?serial=134975&interface=1
Canon-MX920-series accepting requests since Thu 07 Apr 2022 08:26:28 AM PDT
printer Canon-MX920-series is idle. enabled since Thu 07 Apr 2022 08:26:28 AM PDT

[brian_p]

cannon MX922

scheduler is running
system default destination: Canon-MX920-series
device for Canon-MX920-series: usb://Canon/MX920%20series?serial=134975&interface=1
Canon-MX920-series accepting requests since Thu 07 Apr 2022 08:26:28 AM PDT
printer Canon-MX920-series is idle. enabled since Thu 07 Apr 2022 08:26:28 AM PDT

I gave four queries. You have answered one of them! Why be picky?

[pegasis]

I am not sure i am following you

[pegasis]

Mint version? LM 19,3
USB or network? USB
Canon drivers installed? no, just OS drivers.
could not find canon drivers for my printer with linux

[brian_p]

Download and install ipp-usb from

https://download.opensuse.org/repositor ... .04/amd64/.

Plug printer into USB and give

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systemctl status ipp-usb

[pegasis]

error

[brian_p]

ipp-usb is much, much better than ippusbxd. Even ippusbxd's author says so. Do

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sudo apt purge ippusbxd

[pegasis]

ipp-usb.service - Daemon for IPP over USB printer support
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ipp-usb.service; static; vendor preset: e
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:ipp-usb(8)

[brian_p]

ipp-usb.service - Daemon for IPP over USB printer support
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ipp-usb.service; static; vendor preset: e
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:ipp-usb(8)

Pass. I've never met this (loaded but inactive). A firmware update needed? Reboot?

[pegasis]

it needed to find a driver for the printer which it did.

it works great now:)

Thanks

[brian_p]

it needed to find a driver for the printer which it did.

it works great now:)

Thanks

Splendid.

I would like some information about this device. Do you think you could manage that? The outpus of

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avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp

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avahi-browse -rt _uscan._tcp

would be a start.

[pegasis]

neither gave output

[pdc_2]

if you go to the PRINTERS folder; using in ADMINISTRATION

how many icons are there in that, for your printer please?

If one, can you right-click the icon; select PROPERTIES; and drag the window to the right, to fully open it;

can you give us a screenshot or tell us what the line MAKE & MODEL says please?

[pegasis]

[pdc_2]

thanks very much; as above

.. can you ...........

drag the window to the right, to fully open it;

[pegasis]

[pdc_2]

thanks; so this is at least a 9yr old device, and it looks like you have downloaded the canon driver (version 3.9) and that is what is running the printing

https://asia.canon/en/support/0100517002?model=6992B

it seems it is all working well for you now