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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 2008 22:49:06 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours
Message-ID:  <20081001204906.GD58548@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200810011546.29798.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
References:  <200810011546.29798.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>

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On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:46:29PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:
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> I've just installed a Canon Pixma iP4500 on a 6.3 system using CUPS and=
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> gutenprint. Black printing is fine but I've got problems with colours.=20
> The colour wheel on the CUPS test page comes out as a psychedelic=20
> collection of brightly coloured rings. If I print from gimp then the=20
> correct colours appear but they are very dark and "muddy". The colours=20
> start to look a bit more reasonable from the gimp if I push the gamma=20
> value up to 2.

Have you installed a .ppd file for this printer? This is a file that
tells cups about the capabilities of this printer.

See http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=3DCanon-PIXMA_IP43=
00_OR_PIXMA_IP4500

I'm not sure if just installing the ppd file works. It does for my
PostScript printer.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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