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, < luv-main@luv.asn.au> 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
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