[cups] extremely high ink mileage from a brother MFC-J6920DW

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 21 September 2018 23:05:23 Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings all;
>
> cups-1.5.3, uptodate debian wheezy install.
>
> This is a bigger printer than most, can handle up to and including
> tabloid paper when fed from the rear slot by hand.
>
> But its either tray sensitive, or paper sensitive.
>
> I normally keep a glossy photo paper in tray 1, but I have to do a
> test print to find if I have the paper side proper, one side gives a
> pastel printout and the other side gets so much ink it takes 20
> minutes to dry and soaks clear thru.
>
> But it will not do duplex from tray 1, only from tray 2. I usually
> keep tray 2 full of a decent quality copy paper rated for duplex.
>
> I just was determined to get a usable color image out of it, on paper
> from tray 2 and just did 3 prints of the cover describing an interface
> board for a cnc machine.
>
> Looking at the pdf with okular, its beautiful on screen. Pull down and
> select this printer, (cups is using brothers own downloadable driver)
> and print the cover page. very washed out, light pastel colors.
>
> So just for S&G, I set the okular requestors for printout color all
> to -20, then to 0, and then to 20, making a print at each setting.
>
> All 3 are absolutely identical!
>
> So I repeated it this time reconfiguring it for that same range -20 to
> 20, setting both the cups profile, and the okular view of that profile
> to the same -20 to +20 settings.  And again, all 3 printouts were
> identical.
>
> Ran a test page from the cups/printers/maintenance pull down.
> All washed out.

Ping!

Has no one any suggestions?

> What should I check next?
>
> Thanks.



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