Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
I am on Debian Lenny, and CUPS 1.3.8 is installed. My DeskJet-1120C is the only printer defined in cups. On http://localhost:631, it says:On 02/12/2011 08:59 AM, Bernard wrote: ...snip...If, discarding the use of 'gv', I just print the ps file directly as follows: lpr -PDeskJet-1120C myfile.ps I get exactly the same printing result (poor quality, black and white)...snip...If I'm understanding correctly what you've written, it seems to me that your problem may not be ghostview. I think you might want to try specifying different drivers for your printer to see if others might work better.You might also want to provide a bit of information about your system.
HP DeskJet 1120 C - CUPS + Gutenprint v5.0.2 URL parallel:/dev/lp0 General default media size A4 Color Model RGB Color The CUPS test page prints OK with due colorsIn my older system (Debian Sarge), I also had cups, but I wonder if hpijs was not installed too. In here, it was not installed, but I just did installed it, with no difference in the end printing result. A 'man hpijs' says:
'Ghostscript will run it if the ijs server parameter is set to 'IjsServer=hpijs' when invoking the IJS driver'.
But I don't know how to go about to carry that test, since a 'man ghostscript' does not explain how invoke it the right way ; 'gs -sDEVICE=IJS myfile.ps' sends an error saying that device IJS is not found
Here it seems to be the opposite: CUPS with Gutenprint gives poor black and white prints, and I am trying to test hpijs... to no avail so farI run Debian testing on all of my systems, and I recently had to switch from hpijs drivers to CUPS+Gutenprint on all of my HP LaserJet printers for a similar problem. (They weren't dithering or shading properly, but simly printing black & white.)
-Gilbert