Color with CUPS driver
Jan Engelhardt
jengelh at linux01.gwdg.de
Wed May 31 12:24:24 PDT 2006
>> 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?
>
> 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.
>
cups6.ppd (cups test driver v6).
Contains lines like
*ColorDevice: False
*DefaultColorSpace: Gray
Are these the ones which need to be changed or are there more?
Thank you,
Jan Engelhardt
--
More information about the cups
mailing list