Comment 22 for bug 407184

For setting resolutions and other printing options choose at first the printer on the first tab of the printing dialog of eog and then click throug the other tabs, they contain several options. You should try to change options for the resolution and other output-quality-related options. You will usually find them on the "Advanced" tab.

After having tried this please report your results on the mailing list

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel

This is the developer mailing list of Gutenprint, the driver which is used by default for your printer. Then they get aware of the problem and could work on a fix.

The mailing list posting which you sited in the initial posting is about installation of a driver from Canon.

To get drivers directly from Canon, go to the Canon web site of Europe or Australia, then go to the driver download section. There choose your model and "Linux" as operating system. If your printer is supported you will get to a page for downloading a driver package then.