This problem disappeared some time ago when I started to use "Let printer determine colors" acroread advanced option. But, sadly, from some days (I am unable to know what update broke this) it fails even with that option. The same occurs when I manually try to print it using "lpr test.pdf", while other tools not using "lpr" work ok What info do you need for trying to find the problem here? app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.71-r4 (the same with -r2, -r3, 8.70...) net-print/cups-1.3.11-r2 net-print/hplip-3.10.2-r4 (the same with 3.9.12-r1) My emerge --info: Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r7-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3200+-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 02 May 2010 15:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests autoaddcvs ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages multilib-strict news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign split-log strict test unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org" LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/suka /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 applet avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdinstall cdr cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx daap dbus djvu dri dts dvd dvdr dvi eds emboss encode evo exif fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gdu gif glitz gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick java jpeg kdehiddenvisibility kpathsea latex lcms libnotify lyx lzma mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network network-cron nls nptl nptlonly ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pch pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection reiserfs scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs t1lib tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vcd vorbis webkit x264 xattr xcb xinetd xml xmp xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 230073 [details] test.pdf
It's a hplip problem (all versions in tree are affected by this) when using "hpcups" filter instead of "hpijs" one
Created attachment 230193 [details] PSC_1600.ppd -> hpcups (and failing one)
Created attachment 230195 [details] PSC_1600_2.ppd -> hpijs (and working one)
Created attachment 230211 [details] Test series with different printer drivers, files and programs I can reproduce this bug here. This looks similar to bug #307267. The user who reported this bug already opened an hplip bug as he verified this problem with Xubuntu. So this does not look like a Gentoo specific bug. I did a test series with your test file and the one from bug #307267. Like you said this only happens with hpcups, but the results with for the two test files are different like you see in the attached file.
Thanks a lot for the info. I will CC to https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/534096 Is there any more that I could do for helping on this? Or should I wait for https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/534096 to be solved at first? Thanks :-)
(In reply to comment #6) > Is there any more that I could do for helping on this? Or should I wait for > https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/534096 to be solved at first? Your welcome. Can you please add the use flags you have enabled for for hplip. Nowadays there is also "emerge --info package-atom" just in case you did not know. I don't think there is anything we can do until upstream provides a patch besides using the hpijs driver.
(In reply to comment #7) > Your welcome. Can you please add the use flags you have enabled for for hplip. > Nowadays there is also "emerge --info package-atom" just in case you did not > know. > Of course ;-) net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 was built with the following: USE="X hpcups hpijs libnotify (multilib) policykit qt4 scanner test -doc -fax -minimal -new-hpcups -parport -snmp -static-ppds -udev-acl" As you can see, I have both enabled (hpijs and hpcups) and, then, when I configure cups, I am able to choose between two provided ppds. I have also tried to enable "new-hpcups"... but I wasn't able to find any ppd for my printer with it :-( > I don't think there is anything we can do until upstream provides a patch > besides using the hpijs driver. > OK but, why ebuild defaults to +hpcups? Is it preferred by upstream?
(In reply to comment #8) > I have also tried to enable "new-hpcups"... but I wasn't able to find any ppd > for my printer with it :-( I have re-checked the new-hpcups flag, looks like it does not do anything nowadays. I will remove it from the ebuild. > OK but, why ebuild defaults to +hpcups? Is it preferred by upstream? Yes, take a look at the release notes for 3.9.6 at http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/release_notes.html
With a different printer (a Deskjet 2050 j510), I have seen hpcups driver causes black cartridge to not be used for printing black texts, causing them to be seen as "grey". Hpijs driver also fixes this, maybe ebuild should also build +hpijs by default, that way most people could easily choose between both alternatives and check for the best one for them
Still a problem with hplip-3.12.2?
The printer affected by this driver issue died time ago and, then, I cannot test :(
I am able to print the attached test page with lpr, acroread, qpdfview and gimp with correct colors. Closing
