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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378068 Title: Unsatisfactory Quality on Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser Printer (foomatic) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foo2zjs/+bug/378068/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
