From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 15:04:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBDE11065689 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:04:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C9B8FC16 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:04:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=kestrel.milibyte.co.uk) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1KlmD2-0005Ck-FT for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:04:48 +0100 Received: by kestrel.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KlmD1-0001Ky-I2 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:04:48 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:04:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200810011546.29798.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <200810021159.04926.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20081002165456.GA91912@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20081002165456.GA91912@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810031604.47290.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on kestrel.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 4e5af8479835b7016d3885b64bb7d75a Subject: Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:04:51 -0000 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: kestrel:/home/mike% pkg_info -Ix cups gutenprint cups-base-1.3.7_2 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_1 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers gimp-gutenprint-5.1.7 GutenPrint Printer Driver gutenprint-5.1.7 The "meta-port" for GutenPrint gutenprint-base-5.1.7 GutenPrint Printer Driver gutenprint-cups-5.1.7_2 GutenPrint Printer Driver gutenprint-ijs-5.1.7 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration 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 . The images have lost some quality in the scanning but effectively demonstrate what's happening. 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 if anybody's interested. -- Mike Clarke