Color with CUPS driver

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at linux01.gwdg.de
Wed May 31 13:49:03 PDT 2006


>>
>> 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?
>

Alright, setting that to True and CMYK is everything needed to make it 
work, thanks.
It (True/CMYK) even works with ADOBEPS 4.2 (for some old Win98 boxen that 
can't use CUPSv6.)


Jan Engelhardt
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