From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 16:57:30 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 D73B2106568C for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:57:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532998FC12 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:57:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m93GvSqA002077; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:57:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E4B86BA95; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:57:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:57:27 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Mike Clarke Message-ID: <20081003165727.GA31034@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200810011546.29798.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <200810021159.04926.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20081002165456.GA91912@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <200810031604.47290.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200810031604.47290.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16:57:30 -0000 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 04:04:47PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Thursday 02 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote: >=20 > > Gimp uses Gutenprint doesn't it? So you could try using the > > gutenprint driver? >=20 > That's the odd thing, CUPS is (supposed to be) using the gutenprint=20 > driver. Here's a list of the relevant packages: With my previous (non-postscript) LaserJet 6L printer, there were two drive= rs 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=20 > can get tolerable results when printing from the Gimp, though still not= =20 > as good as the Windows drivers give. Printing from any other=20 > application just produces totally wrong psychedelic colours. There's an= =20 > example showing an original file and a couple of scans of prints at=20 > . The images have lost some=20 > quality in the scanning but effectively demonstrate what's happening. It looks like it is rasterizing too coarse. =20 > CUPS is using the ppd file extracted=20 > from /usr/local/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.1/en_GB/stp-bjc-PIXMA-iP450= 0.5.1.ppd.gz.=20 > I'll not post the contents here ( > 2000 lines) but there's a copy at=20 > if anybody's interested. I can't spot anything suspicous in that. Maybe you should try a gutenprint mailing-list/forum.=20 Roland --=20 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) --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjmTvcACgkQEnfvsMMhpyU45QCdHnoAIBknd6LBTrNzSSFiMzFc kMcAni+CgVsQvPIhrxQfCE4L3mdqJyNB =Yeh4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--