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
