Thank-you. On , Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> wrote: > Please get Gutenprint 5.2.7 from
> http://www.openprinting.org/driver/gutenprint > These are universal packages which also work with Maverick. Take the > .DEB package for your system's architecture. > ** Changed in: gutenprint (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Won't Fix > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939000 > Title: > Gutenberg Printer Driver Database too Old Need to update > Status in “gutenprint” package in Ubuntu: > Won't Fix > Bug description: > I am using Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) with a Canon Pixima ip5000 > printer. The print driver supplied by Ubuntu is 5.2.6. > The colors do not register correctly. Documents with one color (black) > work fine. See the post by DoctorMO: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5768692&postcount=2 > When trying to update, Ubuntu does not find a more current driver, which > evidently exists. > I will assume that if the printer driver database is updated for Ubuntu > 10.10 that will resolve the issue. > Below is the response from Gernot Hassenpflug > http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Canon/Canon-PIXMA_iP5000 > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1) 5.2.6 is pretty old. 5.2.7 is out since May 2011 and I added plenty > of corrections to printer in 5.2.7, including likely for the iP5000. > 5.2.8pre1 is also out since Dec 2012 so you might try installing that. > 2) I see, yes, you will only have perhaps 1 mode there. > 3) the gutenprint web page has download page links where you can get > the latest version. Ubuntu 10.10 did not upgrade it seems, a bit > surprising. You can install another version locally without conflict > with the system version already present. > In conclusion, if you install 5.2.7, or better still, 5.2.8pre1, you > can at least get (I hope) correctly registered colors. Whether the > colors need tuning is something to be determined after that, since > without a physical printer available we simply do not know. Thus, if > you could test, that would help a lot. > Best regards, > Gernot Hassenpflug > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gutenprint/+bug/939000/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939000 Title: Gutenberg Printer Driver Database too Old Need to update To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gutenprint/+bug/939000/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
