Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:59:04 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours Message-ID: <200810021159.04926.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081001204906.GD58548@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200810011546.29798.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20081001204906.GD58548@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:46:29PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: > > I've just installed a Canon Pixma iP4500 on a 6.3 system using CUPS > > and gutenprint. Black printing is fine but I've got problems with > > colours. The colour wheel on the CUPS test page comes out as a > > psychedelic collection of brightly coloured rings. If I print from > > gimp then the correct colours appear but they are very dark and > > "muddy". The colours start to look a bit more reasonable from the > > gimp if I push the gamma value up to 2. > > Have you installed a .ppd file for this printer? This is a file that > tells cups about the capabilities of this printer. I'm using the ppd file bundled with cups (/usr/local/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.1/en_GB/stp-bjc-PIXMA-iP4500.5.1.ppd.gz). > See > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_IP43 >00_OR_PIXMA_IP4500 > > I'm not sure if just installing the ppd file works. It does for my > PostScript printer. That didn't work for me. I couldn't find anywhere to download just the ppd file file so I downloaded cnijfilter-ip4500series_2.80-1_i386.deb from Canon's site and extracted the ppd file from that with tar. That failed with the message "Unable to execute /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstocanonij: No such file or directory". Then I edited the cupsfilter line in the ppd file and replaced pstocanonij with rastertogutenprint.5.1 but that just resulted in "Gutenprint Fatal error: Corrupted NickName attribute in PPD file". The link you quoted implied that the IP4300 driver might also work for the IP4500 so I tried to configure it as an IP4300 but it only spat out a blank page when I tried a test print. Interestingly the CUPS test page (/usr/local/share/cups/data/testprint.ps) only produces the psychedelic rings in the colour wheel if I print it from the local CUPS web page or from KGhostView, if I open it with the gimp and print from there I get the correct colour pattern but with very muddy colours. -- Mike Clarke
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