On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:41:12PM -0000, Till Kamppeter said: > You do not need to edit the PPD file to change the color mode. You only > need to change the default setting of the "Color Mode" option. To do so, > right-click the printer icon in the gnome-cups-manager and choose > "Properties". On the "Advanced" tab you can set "Color Mode" to "Color". > To get a better output quality try also to set "Bits per Plane" to "2 > Bits per Plane". > > If these changes have no effect, call the CUPS web interface via > http://localhost:631/, click the "Printers" tab and click "Set printer > options" at the entry for your printer. Set the above-mentioned options > there and try again. > > Does it work now?
Yeah, on three different boxes doing it via "gnome-cups-manager" didn't work; I never tried the web interface though. I'll try changing the file back and using that to fix it when I get home. Note that the forums contain reports from other people that it doesn't work, and lots of non-Ubuntu forums talk about it too, always with either editing the file or not using Ubuntu's foo packages at all as the solution. See the links I provided. Also tried setting Bits per Plane to 2, and that just causes printing to silently fail. Setting it back causes printing to begin working again. I was going to file that as seperate bug this weekend. -- Shawn McMahon | EIV Consulting | Peace is a symptom of victory. http://www.eiv.com | -- Problems with color printing on Laserjet 2600n https://launchpad.net/bugs/90250 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
