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I was given a Canon S9000 large-format photo printer which works perfectly in Windows 7.

In Ubuntu 15.10, with the (default) Gutenprint v5.2.11-pre1 driver, prints come out extremely dark, and with a strong yellow cast. Linux had the same problem with my previous photo printer, an HP b8850. With the HP, I was unable to solve the problem with colour correction, but it was notorious for having bad firmware.

I tried very briefly to fix this with an ArgyllCMS icc profile on cheap inkjet paper (I happen to have a Colormunki photo), but it did not improve things at all -- many light tints are still printed as yellow, and many dark ones are still printed as black.

Will I be able to fix the Canon's bad prints with a colour profile if I persevere? I don't want to waste a bunch of time, ink, and paper trying to profile the printer if this is a fundamental driver problem.

Basically, what should I try next? Or should I just give up and do all my colour printing from Windows?

Things tried:

  • changing to CYMK mode, also CMY and RGB
  • Creating a rudimentary ICC with ArgyllCMS and a ColorMunki
  • TurboPrint (seems to work, but CAD$90 to get ICC profiles is out of reach).
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I wonder if this page may help you: Canon printer color printing too dark

I have a similar problem. I recently installed Ubuntu Mate 16.04. My memory is that colours on my Epson were fine. However I have been travelling and using friends' printers. With both an HP Deskjet 3050A and a Canon MG6800 (using CUPS+Gutenprint driver), the cyan and magenta were correct but the yellow was too dark and mustardy, making the red, green and blue too dark.

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