OK, so testing confirms that, for me, this issue is present upstream. More careful reading leads me to believe that the poor quality printouts with foo2qpdl are actually due to a known issue with Ghostscript 9+. See https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696179
foo2qpdl documents the problem here: http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/INSTALL (under "GHOSTSCRIPT BUGS" section heading) http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/forum/read.php?63,3189 The suggested workaround is to use Ghostscript 8.71 but I was unable to get that to compile on Ubuntu 16.04. ** Bug watch added: Ghostscript (AFPL) Bugzilla #696179 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696179 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 382379 pdftops CUPS filter has several problems -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to foo2zjs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378068 Title: Unsatisfactory Quality on Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser Printer (foomatic) Status in foo2zjs package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Component: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser Printer Driver: Samsung CLP-315 Foomatic/foo2qpdl (recommended) OS: Clean Ubuntu 9.04 Installation with current updates System Environment: http://www.sysprofile.de/id42117 After connecting the printer the drivers were installer properly. I can print from all applications but the resulting print-out never is satisfying. Images are way too dark and patchy and characters are a bit blurry. Fortunately, the results are fine when using Samsung's original drivers. Hoping for this to be fixed in Karmic. ;-) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foo2zjs/+bug/378068/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
