Re: Strange printing effect *WORKAROUND*
On 26/05/10 17:30:55, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:16:29 +0100
> Barry Samuels <barry@beenthere.mail1.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello Barry,
>
> > It does look like the HPLIP driver is causing the problem.
>
> It certainly seems to be. Although the thread meantioned below also
> throws suspicion on ghostscript. After some poking around (Google,
> HPLIP support site [which is a real PITA to navigate]) I managed to
> find this thread;
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/578920
>
> Which offers a workaround. It worked for me, but I'm not sure whether
> it will for you as the symptoms aren't the same (black o/p instead of
> yellow/cream).
>
> Here's what to do:
>
> Edit;
>
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf
>
> Change;
>
> PS2PDF_OPTIONS="$PS2PS_OPTIONS -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode \
> -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dUseCIEColor"
>
> to;
>
> PS2PDF_OPTIONS="$PS2PS_OPTIONS -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode \
> -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer"
>
>
> It worked for me. No doubt, at the next upgrade, things will get
> changed back but hopefully, the bug will be fixed before that.
Brad
Thanks for posting that but it didn't work for me but I do have the plain
vanilla postscript driver which does work.
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Barry Samuels
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