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Ubuntu 15.04 has successfully recognized my All-In-One printer+scanner Canon PIXMA MG3550 as a Canon MG3500 series.

  • Scanning and black-and-white printing are correct :-)
  • But color printing does not produce the right colors :-(

As I do not find (or I do not know how to find) an ICC profile for my system, I tried to understand printer calibration, to use Argyll and also to install a GUI ([gnome-color-manager).

But it is too complicated, I am a beginner in color calibration!

Therefore, I am looking for a simple intuitive graphical tool to:

  1. Print a complete CMYK color reference test card/chart
  2. Scan the printed result (assuming the scanner is calibrated)
  3. Compute (and install) the ICC profile
  4. Repeat again until the ICC values are sufficiently stabilized

If no such tool exists on Ubuntu, I can download a recommended test image, run some command lines and manually install the new generated ICC profiles. Is there a website briefly providing these steps?

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  • I am currently struggling with the same topic: printer colors are totally off, even after installing and trying multiple ICC and ICM profiles I got out of the MacOS printer driver. Did you ever solve this?
    – Jens
    Sep 13, 2018 at 11:54
  • Hi Jens, I have posted an answer, but I am afraid my answer may not help fixing your issue... Please let me know. Cheers ;-)
    – oHo
    Oct 7, 2018 at 19:19

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Solved by upgrading to latest Ubuntu stable release

I have not calibrated my printer but I post here how this issue has been solved as requested by Jens' comment.

In fact, the computer had been repaired by a shop and the Ubuntu 15.04 I had originally installed had been replaced by the 14.04 LTS release. As I did not notice the Ubuntu version downgrade I was thinking about a printer calibration problem...

This issue got fixed when migrating from that Ubuntu LTS release to the latest stable release.

As a complement, I can tell a story at my office in 2015: Nobody was able to print on the single printer of the floor from Ubuntu (we were all using Ubuntu LTS). We had to reboot on Windows :-(
One day, I installed the latest Ubuntu stable release, and I became the first to print on that printer :-) (see my tutorial). But I was not using the same official Ubuntu release as my other colleagues...

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  • I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the most current release, so this should not be an issue. I had the same issue with 16.04 LTS.
    – Jens
    Oct 10, 2018 at 21:24
  • I understand your printer is old and not yet supported on recent Ubuntu... I am afraid your printer may never be supported because nobody is working any longer on the driver of your printer. I hope I am wrong... Maybe you will be able to test the Ubuntu 18.10. That Ubuntu version should be released at the end of this month...
    – oHo
    Oct 12, 2018 at 13:23

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