Printing problems with Canon MP600R (and zathura)

Hi, I've been trying to get my printer working properly. I've installed cups according to the wiki article, and adding the printer worked as expected. This is where I'm at: When printing from zathura, the resulting page is really low resolution. When printing to cups-pdf from zathura, the resulting PDF is of very low resolution. However, when using
lp -d Virtual_PDF_Printer test.pdf
the resulting PDF is just fine. When printing with
lp -d Canon_MP600R test.pdf
the page is much better in resolution, but still not ideal. Also, it seems that the font comes out too bold?!
However, the cups test page I've printed looks fine to me.
Not sure if this is related, but sometimes the printer does not react to a print job, and /var/log/cups/error_log contains lines like this:
Got USB transaction timeout during write.
Thanks in advance
Last edited by Psirus (2013-08-09 15:27:58)

Not sure, but I think I read that some users had issues printing pdf's without adobe reader installed.

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