On Tue 14 Nov 2017 at 07:33:03 +0100, Adrian Immanuel Kieß wrote:
> Dear Brian,
>
> I completed your suggested tests and all of those three printing
> commands produce a B/W print with light magenta, the same result as I
> attached in a before sent to you message.
Let us summarise where we are at.
1. I have printed adrian.ps on an Epson. Not the best of printouts but
it is in full colour. The PS file is a good file, so cups-filters
and cups have behaved correctly.
2. You have sent two PS files *directly* to the printer. The outcome is
described above. The good PS files *do* print but are very suboptimal.
This poor printing is not the result of using hplip because its
backend was not used; it points to the printer being responsible in
some way.
3. You have other print queues which also do not work. This is another
indication that hplip is not responsible for the behaviour.
4. You report:
> Test printouts from the Gnome-Settings or directly fom the
> printer all print the colour correctly so I assume something
> is wrong the postscript file generated, .......
I am pretty confident (see 1) the PS file is ok. I am unfamiliar with
Gnome-Settings; the only extra thing it will do (I think) is convert
the JPG to a PDF before dispatching it to the printing system. Maybe
that makes a difference; I do not know.
When you say print "directly fom the printer" I suppose you did this by
using the front panel of the printer? Getting full colour implies a
functional printer; toner ok etc.
Here are two ways to try in order to get printing working for you again.
a) Your printer should be capable of driverless printing. Please read
https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting
I'd suggest using the cups-browsed method.
b) Don't have the filtering system generate a PS file. Set up a print
queue with a PCL 6 PPD (the CUPS+Gutenprint one?).
Regards,
Brian.
