Dennis Myers wrote:
On Saturday 23 November 2002 11:23 am, John Richard Smith wrote:No, the colours are all there, printer works fine in M8.2, not M9.0
Joe Braddock wrote:I had the same problem once and it was cause the color cartridge was out of one of the colors, can't recall which. Time to replace or refill?
-------Original Message-------From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 11/22/02 04:45 PMThe only partitions I share are the /boot partition, nothing else.
To: Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53
I guess so.I won't be able to until tonight (Saturday), but I'll be glad to test it. As I said in another post, though, I've been printing everything from
I've been conducting a little experiment,
this is with Z53 foomatic+gimp-print driver(it's probably the >better of
the two ghostscript
drivers) now I've taken the standard colour settings :-
yellow 1.000
contrast 1.000
magenta 1.000
stp gamma 1.600
stp brightness 1.000
cyan 1.000 result lacking red.
Each in turn I increased first yellow, then magenta, and then >cyan
to the maximum setting of 4.000 each while putting back the
previous to 1.000
in each and every case the only change is an increase of BLUE
red is noticeable in it's absence and yellow is unchanged.
Something is screwed, is it the install or a faulty driver,
I suppose I have to reinstall, but not looking forward to
doing that as printer driver and spooling software installs
is not my idea of fun.It might be quicker to do an entire
OS install.
However as you say maybe there is an updated driver.
I don't know whether Joe Braddock of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
might be willing to test his z53 with the same driver and >settings
and report to me , the cost is 3 sheets of wasted paper and ink.
John
plain black text to full color photos and I haven't had a problem with
it.
Joeb
p.s. One last question. When you did your dual install of 8.2 and 9.0,
are you sharing any partitions between the two (i.e. home or var)?
Probably I ought to create a shared /home but I don't , as on the whole
I don't find it much trouble to copy across anything I need which isn't all
that much. Just things like cddb , addressboot, bookmarks etc.
John
but I have found out something.
the ghostscript drivers for M8.2 are a different version to M9.0
for instance
M8.2 uses one ghostscript driver, LEXMARK Z52,CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.0
M9.0 LEXMARK Z53,CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2
so what, I here you say,
well hithertoo I have done testpages for all 3 ghostscript drivers which
appeared ok, the colour wheel was good and the colours were vivid enought
with everything just so, until you take a closer look at the colour wheel
pie chart lettering, I guess I must of been hasty to say the test page
looks fine, because upon closer inspection, whilst:-
yellow is in pie chart position against Y , that's ok
one shade of red " C , I take to mean crimson
yet another shade of red " G , which surely ought to mean green
green is in pie chart position against R, which surely ought to mean red
blue is in pie chart position against M, which I take to mean mauve
purple is in pie chart position against B, which I take to mean blue
Does this mean drivers are screwed, or is it in the spooling
that is the question ?
John
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