Color with CUPS driver

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Tue May 30 07:50:25 PDT 2006


Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hello newsgroup and list,
> 
> 
> I have installed the CUPS Test Driver v6 on a Windows XP machine and 
> printing to CUPS on port 631 works well.
> 
> But it seems that this driver does not support color, as running 
> `ghostscript` or `gv` on /var/lib/cups/d<number> shows the document in 
> grayscale only.
> 
> Is this a known bug / missing feature?
> 
> 
> 
> Jan Engelhardt

I suspect you have configured your printer using the wrong PPD. The Win driver
(the pscriptx.dll and friends) only produce color PS jobs if (and only if)
the PPD specifies the target printer as a color device.

Helge


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