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Recommendations for a good photo printing application? (self.linux)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by cyborganism to c/[email protected]

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Hello [email protected]!

I've completely switched from dual boot to full Linux last year and I've been struggling to find the one tool that could replace the printer software that came with my Canon printer.

My printer came with an application that allows me to print border-less photos and apply fixes such as colour correction, remove red eyes, etc. So far I haven't found any application that allows me to print photos properly.

I'm using Kubuntu 24.04 and I tried using Gwenview to print my photos. While the dialog allows me to configure my printer to print on 4x6 border-less photo paper, it still prints with ~4mm borders.

I'm also asking myself, is this more of a KDE Plasma printing issue or an application printing issue?

Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: I'm even considering using paid software at this point. Any solution is welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Disclaimer: I've pretty much stopped printing photos at home and just take them to Walmart/Walgreens/etc so I'm a bit out of my depth here.

I'm also asking myself, is this more of a KDE Plasma printing issue or an application printing issue?

Possibly a driver issue. Are you using a CUPS driver or does Canon provide a Linux driver for the printer? In order to get the duplexer to work on my laser printer, I had to install Brother's official Linux driver. Maybe 'borderless' is a feature specific to the official driver?

You might try installing the Canon software in WINE and seeing:

If you can print from that (not sure if it can or not)
If you can't print directly from that, can the result be exported/saved to a format you can print from Linux? If so, does that addres the border issue?

Beyond that, I'm at a bit of a loss as I haven't done home photo printing in ages. When I did, I just dealt with the borders with a paper cutter.

[–] cyborganism 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the advice.

I did buy this printer for the purpose of printing photos. I send them out to friends with a letter every year lol. So going to a shop to get them printed kind of defeats the purpose.

I did try to use it through Wine with Bottles, but it's looking specifically for a Windows printer (or the spool system or whatever). So that's a no go.

Right now I'm just using a Windows VM instead.

I forgot how I installed the printer, so I need to check again if I'm using a Canon provided driver or the CUPS one.

Thanks for the advice!

[–] cyborganism 2 points 1 week ago

Hi I just wanted to come back to you about whether I was using CUPS or proprietary drivers. I am using proprietary Canon drivers provided from their support website. So I guess the official one in Linux doesn't support it somehow?