Hello:
For about a year, I've printed color documents on an HP DeskJet 820Cse (that's right: their "Special Edition" for Windows only) using the CUPS driver. The major problem is that the color balance is totally off. The test page color wheel has blank white where yellow should be, and gray where white should be. Yellows don't show up at all. At first I blamed the cartridge--right up to the point where I substituted another tricolor cartridge and got the same result. I also sent a job to that printer from Windows, and the colors were properly in balance, with all the yellows in place.
Is this a problem with CUPS, or was there always something about the DeskJet 820Cse that I never took into account? In setting up the print queues on my Linux machines (both of them), I used the DeskJet 820C driver--because CUPS *has no* driver labeled 820Cse.
I'm thinking of getting another color printer that is on the CUPS driver list--I have several to choose from, with a wide variety of interfaces. (I'm not inclined to get a multifunction job--apparently Fedora support for them is even more limited, if recent threads are at all indicative.) Does anyone else have color-balance problems with sending color jobs to color printers using CUPS? If so, how did you solve them? And if anyone could tell me what numbers on the existing 820C driver I can play around with, to get the yellows back the way they should be, I'd appreciate it.
Temlakos
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 00:10, Temlakos wrote:
Hello:
For about a year, I've printed color documents on an HP DeskJet 820Cse (that's right: their "Special Edition" for Windows only) using the CUPS driver. The major problem is that the color balance is totally off. The test page color wheel has blank white where yellow should be, and gray where white should be. Yellows don't show up at all. At first I blamed the cartridge--right up to the point where I substituted another tricolor cartridge and got the same result. I also sent a job to that printer from Windows, and the colors were properly in balance, with all the yellows in place.
Is this a problem with CUPS, or was there always something about the DeskJet 820Cse that I never took into account? In setting up the print queues on my Linux machines (both of them), I used the DeskJet 820C driver--because CUPS *has no* driver labeled 820Cse.
I'm thinking of getting another color printer that is on the CUPS driver list--I have several to choose from, with a wide variety of interfaces. (I'm not inclined to get a multifunction job--apparently Fedora support for them is even more limited, if recent threads are at all indicative.) Does anyone else have color-balance problems with sending color jobs to color printers using CUPS? If so, how did you solve them? And if anyone could tell me what numbers on the existing 820C driver I can play around with, to get the yellows back the way they should be, I'd appreciate it.
Temlakos
Ever tried TurboPrint??. It works with cups, and should also support your printer. I use it with my Canon S830D, and it works very well. It will even give you the printers ink status, which Cups will not.
Wolf
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 10:42, Wolfgang wrote:
Ever tried TurboPrint??. It works with cups, and should also support your printer. I use it with my Canon S830D, and it works very well. It will even give you the printers ink status, which Cups will not.
Wolf
OK, where do I get it, how does it license (open-source? commercial? fee-based?), and how difficult was it to install?
Temlakos
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Hi,
Has the color balance problem existed for the whole time that you have used this printer, or is this a new problem? I have had no trouble printing to a HP Deskjet 855c, 672c, 855cxi, 1600c, and Tektronix Phaser 560 color laser printer.
Which CUPS deskjet printer driver are you using? There are two HP Deskjet printer drivers supplied with the FC2 version of CUPS: HP Deskjet Series CUPS v1.1 (en) HP New Deskjet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)
Try the other driver and see if it makes a difference.
Hope that this helps,
William
Temlakos wrote: | Hello: | | For about a year, I've printed color documents on an HP DeskJet 820Cse | (that's right: their "Special Edition" for Windows only) using the CUPS | driver. The major problem is that the color balance is totally off. The | test page color wheel has blank white where yellow should be, and gray | where white should be. Yellows don't show up at all. At first I blamed | the cartridge--right up to the point where I substituted another | tricolor cartridge and got the same result. I also sent a job to that | printer from Windows, and the colors were properly in balance, with all | the yellows in place. | | Is this a problem with CUPS, or was there always something about the | DeskJet 820Cse that I never took into account? In setting up the print | queues on my Linux machines (both of them), I used the DeskJet 820C | driver--because CUPS *has no* driver labeled 820Cse. | | I'm thinking of getting another color printer that is on the CUPS driver | list--I have several to choose from, with a wide variety of interfaces. | (I'm not inclined to get a multifunction job--apparently Fedora support | for them is even more limited, if recent threads are at all indicative.) | Does anyone else have color-balance problems with sending color jobs to | color printers using CUPS? If so, how did you solve them? And if anyone | could tell me what numbers on the existing 820C driver I can play around | with, to get the yellows back the way they should be, I'd appreciate it. | | Temlakos | |
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 13:11, William Anderson wrote:
Has the color balance problem existed for the whole time that you have used this printer, or is this a new problem? I have had no trouble printing to a HP Deskjet 855c, 672c, 855cxi, 1600c, and Tektronix Phaser 560 color laser printer.
It has always existed.
Which CUPS deskjet printer driver are you using? There are two HP Deskjet printer drivers supplied with the FC2 version of CUPS: HP Deskjet Series CUPS v1.1 (en) HP New Deskjet Series CUPS v1.1 (en)
Try the other driver and see if it makes a difference.
I'm still on FC1, and that's mainly because of another issue involving wireless support that makes even a change of kernel very problematic. I saw only one set of drivers for HP DeskJets.
Temlakos
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