On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 09:32:42AM -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 02/12/2011 08:59 AM, Bernard wrote: > > ...snip... > >If, discarding the use of 'gv', I just print the ps file directly as > >follows: > > > >lpr -PDeskJet-1120C myfile.ps > > > >I get exactly the same printing result (poor quality, black and white) > ...snip... > > If I'm understanding correctly what you've written, it seems to me > that your problem may not be ghostview. I think you might want to > try specifying different drivers for your printer to see if others > might work better. > > You might also want to provide a bit of information about your system. > > I run Debian testing on all of my systems, and I recently had to > switch from hpijs drivers to CUPS+Gutenprint on all of my HP > LaserJet printers for a similar problem. (They weren't dithering or > shading properly, but simly printing black & white.)
Note that while Gutenprint has excellent support for Epson, Canon and other colour inkjects, PCL-based HP deskjets are (AFAICT) only supported in black and white. Good for monochrome lasers where the fine dithering can greatly improve quality, but not so good for inkjets, so if this is the case, you might wasnt to look at hplip instead. There currently isn't a maintainer for the PCL driver to add colour support. If someone took the time, it would probably add significant quality improvement over hplip/hpijs, since it would make use of the more advanced dithering and colour handling of gutenprint. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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