I bought my CP1215 on 14 January and I set it up correctly, so that it worked both in B&W and color modes. A few days ago, however, I noticed that color printing didn't work.

The printer just does nothing when you sent a color job to it, but CUPS reports that the job was completed successfully. The printer prints correctly in color from Windows XP running on VirtualBox.

I use ArchLinux with kernel 2.6.28 and CUPS 1.3.9.

Any ideas would be welcome. Thank you.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2009 02:58PM by rickrich.

$ cd foo2zjs
$ foo2hp2600-wrapper -c -G hp1215-argyll-0.icm testpage.ps > xxx.prn
$ ls -l xxx.prn
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rick rick 346272 2009-02-12 11:12 xxx.prn
$ cp xxx.prn /dev/usb/lp0

What does that say?

Well, my printer is not connected directly to the computer, but to a D-Link DI-524UP Wireless router and print server, so the line "cp xxx.prn /dev/usb/lp0" is not applicable.

However, the generated xxx.prn file is only 72 bytes long:

$ ls -l xxx.prn
-rw-r--r-- 1 pepe pepe 72 feb 12 18:28 xxx.prn

Thanks for answering.

It is ghostscript. Works here on Fedora 9 and 10.

$ rpm -qa | grep ghostscript
ghostscript-8.63-4.fc10.i386

That makes sense. I've got ghostscript 8.64-1 compiled a week ago and updated last Friday. I'll report the problem to the ArchLinux forums.

Thanks a lot.

It definitely is ghostscript: printing works OK after downgrading ghostscript to version 8.63. Is this a general problem with version 8.64, or can it be an issue with the ArchLinux package?

Don't know. Fedora blesses 8.63.

http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/source/detail?r=9452

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690287

This issue has been solved with the new ArchLinux package of ghostscript 8.64 compiled yesterday.

Thank you again.