On Friday 22 Nov 2002 5:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer > driver/spooling > in M9.0 as me but mine is totally stuffed on the colour side and > nothing I do to > correct the appauling colour balance , hue , saturation and brightness > makes any difference . > > Since M8.0 my Z52 's and Z53 all ran on a choice of 2 ghostscript and one > generic driver all of which worked right up to M8.2. The generic drive > was hard to set up,and I gave up on it but the two ghostscript > drivers worked , one was better at low resolution dpi setting > and the other was better with higher resolution, dpi 600 and > above. > > Now nothing works in colour. I've spent hours trying to correct the > situation , wasted an entire cartridge , enless paper, but I cannot > correct it. I think the problem is not in the driver as such, and > in any case the pictures display well enough on screen so > the files are not currepted. It seems to be in the spooling > something overrides and currupts any corrections to > colour ba;lance, hue, saturation and brightness, the result > is awful and quite useless. > > I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it.Whatever > is wrong is in the software and uncorrectable. > > I just wondered whether anyone else has had the same problem. > > John
John - have you tried setting up a new printer from MCC, forcing MCC to identify the printer? It seems to do a much better job at find the right driver than you can do by hand. I have one printer set up on four different configurations or different jobs - and all of them work fine. Anne
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