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
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