The Thursday 2004-07-01 at 09:12 -0400, Marshall Heartley wrote:
Well I am not sure how to solve this. Does the gs version of the file look OK when you tell the system to print to a file?
I haven't tried with the test page from cups, but I have tried from OpenOffice and other apps, printing to a postscript file. Perfect. Then I print the ps file, and the photo parts are horrible. Mind, only the photos! Text is perfect, and the SuSE logo and the circular colour graphs (100%, 50%, 25%, 12.5% 6.25%) are perfect.
If so, then it is something wrong with the way the inks are being mixed for that printer. Some but not all of CUPS drivers allow for you to adjust how much ink hits the paper. This may be available in the web-based interface of CUPS.
No, no, that's not the effect I see. How can I explain... it is as if the driver is using 2 bits per colour. The gecko animal on the photo at the right is just a few blotches of the same green colour, and some yellows. It is similar to using the posterize filter in gimp. I would post it on "my" web page, which I have just activated somewhere in tiscali, but... I don't know where it is! They damm well hide that information! I have no idea of where have they placed it, there is no documentation whatsoever that mentions things like the address of the ftp server or the web server :-/
I know that this is a commercial offering but have you tried the demo version of Turbo Print? I think that it supports your printer. Maybe it is worth a look?
Mmm.... what I do, usually, is print to ps, and switch to windows. Or use OO there. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson