On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 04:04:47PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote: > > > Gimp uses Gutenprint doesn't it? So you could try using the > > gutenprint driver? > > That's the odd thing, CUPS is (supposed to be) using the gutenprint > driver. Here's a list of the relevant packages:
With my previous (non-postscript) LaserJet 6L printer, there were two drivers I could use, IIRC. One labeled "LaserJet 6L" and one labeled "LaserJet 6L (gimp-print)" or something like that. > After a bit of fiddling about with the printer settings for the Gimp I > can get tolerable results when printing from the Gimp, though still not > as good as the Windows drivers give. Printing from any other > application just produces totally wrong psychedelic colours. There's an > example showing an original file and a couple of scans of prints at > <http://www.milibyte.co.uk/colours.pdf>. The images have lost some > quality in the scanning but effectively demonstrate what's happening. It looks like it is rasterizing too coarse. > CUPS is using the ppd file extracted > from > /usr/local/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.1/en_GB/stp-bjc-PIXMA-iP4500.5.1.ppd.gz. > > I'll not post the contents here ( > 2000 lines) but there's a copy at > <http://www.milibyte.co.uk/Canon.ppd> if anybody's interested. I can't spot anything suspicous in that. Maybe you should try a gutenprint mailing-list/forum. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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