Bug#768336: c2esp: print streaky and uneven

[Paul Newall <p.newalls@ntlworld.com>]

On 06/11/14 15:33, Cia Watson wrote:
> Package: printer-driver-c2esp
> Version: 25c-1
> Severity: important
> File: c2esp
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
>    For the last several months, printing to my Kodak ESP-5250 has 
> produced
> streaky and uneven print. It happened when an ink cartridge was low and
> continues after a new ink cartridge (Kodak ink) was installed. 
> Printing a test
> page from the printer prints perfectly.
>
> In addition, printing from the Kodak interface on a Win8.1 laptop also 
> prints
> perfectly, so that leads to the conclusion that it's an issue with this
> driver.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.7
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages printer-driver-c2esp depends on:
> ii  libc6           2.13-38+deb7u6
> ii  libcups2        1.5.3-5+deb7u4
> ii  libcupsdriver1  1.5.3-5+deb7u4
> ii  libcupsimage2   1.5.3-5+deb7u4
> ii  libjbig0        2.0-2+deb7u1
> ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
>
> Versions of packages printer-driver-c2esp recommends:
> ii  cups-ppdc  1.5.3-5+deb7u4
>
> Versions of packages printer-driver-c2esp suggests:
> ii  psutils  1.17.dfsg-1
>
> -- no debconf information
So far, I have not had any other similar reports, and I don't see this 
problem when I print. This makes diagnosis tricky.
Do you happen to know if the c2esp version was c2esp25c-1 before you had 
the problem?
The latest version is c2esp-27, but the functional bits of that are 
almost the same as 25c. So I would be surprised if upgrading would solve 
the problem
Are you connecting to the printer with wifi or usb?
It might help with diagnosis if you checked some different prints: 
colour, black only, high / low resolution.
Also try printing from some different programs, to check that it's not 
depending on the source of the image.
One possibility might be something changed in the cups filters used to 
convert between .pdf or .ps and the raster for printing.
Do you have any other printer available that you can print to also using 
cups? If the filters were the problem they might affect other printers.

My system is:
kodak ESP 5250
AMD64
ubuntu 14.04
kernel 3.13.0-24
c2esp27~rc1-1
libcups2 1.7.1
libcupsimage2 1.7.1
libcupsfilters1 1.0.52 (I can't remember exactly but I think cups 1.7 
stopped having a libcupsdriver package?)
libjbig0 2.02

Paul Newall