Driver reports "ColorSpace is not supported" for Canon iP4500

[ngc2997]

With Gutenprint 5.2.0~rc1-0ubuntu1 being shipped with Ubuntu 8.10, my Canon Pixma iP4500 now reports "The selected ColorSpace is not supported" when trying to print using the CMYK color model. This worked correctly in Hardy, though..

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

Addition: this has also been reported here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2274866&group_id=1537&atid=101537.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Can you try the following?

First, download this file:

http://www.openprinting.org/download/printing/ghostscript-cups-patches/pdftoraster.c

This is an alternative Ghostscript-based pdftoraster filter.

Install the packages needed to compile it:

sudo apt-get install libcups2-dev libcupsimage2-dev

Compile it:

gcc -lcups -lcupsimage -o pdftoraster pdftoraster.c

Install it:

sudo mv /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster.orig
sudo cp pdftoraster /usr/lib/cups/filter/
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster

Now try to print again. Does it work now?

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

It does. At least, it does not issue an error, and prints as expected.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

This means that the new pdftoraster filter solves this problem. As in Jaunty the pdftoraster filter is already replaced by the new one I mark this bug as fixed.

[Patrice Vetsel (vetsel-patrice)]

Hi Till, can you release an upgraded package on Intrepid-proposed ?

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

This is a problem of the pdftoraster filter which is provided by the cups package in Intrepid.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/cups/intrepid/revision/574

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted cups into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package cups - 1.3.9-2ubuntu3

---------------
cups (1.3.9-2ubuntu3) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/local/filters/pdf-filters/filter/pdftoraster.cxx: Fix include path
    of image.h, to fix FTBFS if libcupsimage-dev is not installed.

cups (1.3.9-2ubuntu2) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Till Kamppeter ]
  * debian/local/filters/cpdftocps: The cpdftocps filter did case-sensitive
    checking for CUPS options to keep them away from the pstops filter. CUPS
    treats such options case-insensitive, so in some cases CUPS options got
    applied twice (LP: #299707).
  * debian/local/filters/pdf-filters/filter/pdftoraster.cxx: Fix handling of
    CMYK color space. Patch taken from upstream:
    http://svn.sourceforge.jp/view/pdftoraster/trunk/src/pdftoraster.cc?root=opfc&rev=850&r1=848&r2=850
    (LP: #294671)
  * debian/filters/pstopdf: Do not supply the margins from the PPD to the
    ps2pdf process, as this breaks full-bleed printing and is also disturbs
    the printing if PPDs have too conservative margin definitions. (LP: #282186)

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * rootbackends-worldreadable.dpatch: Apply the same relaxed permission check
    to cups-deviced, so that backends installed as 0744 don't disappear from
    printer detecttion. This unbreaks the ipp/http and lpd detection.
    (LP: #275407, Debian #503644)
  * debian/rules: Install the serial backend with 0744 permissions to make it
    run as root, since /dev/ttyS* are root:dialout and thus not accessible as
    user "lp". Thanks to Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. (part of #506181, LP: #154277)
  * debian/control: Update Vcs-* for intrepid branch.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:13:14 +0100

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to intrepid-updates.

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Thanks a lot Martin.

Have a nice day.

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Forgot to mention :

It works perfectly on documents I tried to print since the install of
the package uploaded to -proposed :)

Thanks again.

[speez (spzed)]

Hi

Printer(Epson DX5050) now works since I uploaded intrepid proposed update.

Thanks