Brown-black background in color mode CP1215

[Boris Krasnopolsky]

I have two problems with HP Color LaserJet CP1215 (CentOS 5.3 x86_64, HPLIP 3.9.8):
1. As it was already reported earlier in https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/388907 ,
I have exactly the same problem - incorrect Imageable area for A4 paper in ppd-file for my printer..
Nevertheless this problem may be solved by manual changing the settings (that, seems, not the best variant),
the second problem is much more critical:
2. Printing any text or images (for example, CUPS printer test page) in COLOR mode causes to filling the page background by
dark-brown-black color.

Thanks..

[Jonathan Casiot (36bits)]

I also have the second problem - black background in colour mode - with an OfficeJet 8500 with CentOS 5.4 and HPLIP 3.9.12.

[Boris Krasnopolsky (krasnopolsky)]

In my case these problems were solved with updating HPLIP to 3.9.10...

[Jonathan Casiot (36bits)]

Just tried 3.9.10 here. Black background problem still exists for me.

[Boris Krasnopolsky (krasnopolsky)]

Also I have updated ghostscript package to ghostscript-8.63-1..
I don't know exactly, but may be it will be helpful..

[Jonathan Casiot (36bits)]

I didn't really want to do a Ghostscript build so I went further back in time and installed HPLIP-3.9.8. Now the test page prints OK in colour mode.

[Yoshinari Hayato (hayato)]

Similar problem with C309A. The background is filled with black in color mode. The other modes seems to be fine, though.

[Mark Purcell (msp)]

From: Markus Grunwald <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [hplip-cups] Page background is printed black
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:45:55 +0100

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When printing Webpages or PDF files with my HP CP1515n, the background -
or better: the empty space between text lines - is black. This looks bad
and costs lots of toner...

I configured the printer with cups to use the "HP Color LaserJet cp1515n
pcl3, hpcups 3.9.12" ppd file.

When using another ppd, namely "HP Color LaserJet cp1515n hpijs pcl3,
3.9.12" (note: hpcups vs. hpijs) everything is fine.

Please tell me if I can give you additional information.

- --- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  500 testing www.debian-multimedia.org
  500 testing security.debian.org
  500 testing ftp2.de.debian.org

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Depends (Version) | Installed
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libc6 (>= 2.2.5) | 2.10.2-2
libcups2 (>= 1.4.0) | 1.4.2-4
libcupsimage2 (>= 1.4.0) | 1.4.2-4
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.4.2-9
libhpmud0 | 3.9.12-2
libjpeg62 | 6b-15
libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8k-1) | 0.9.8k-8
libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) | 4.4.2-9
hplip (= 3.9.12-2) | 3.9.12-2
ghostscript-cups | 8.70~dfsg-2+b1
cups (>= 1.4.0) | 1.4.2-4
 OR cupsddk | 1.4.2-4
cups-client | 1.4.2-4

Package's Recommends field is empty.

Suggests (Version) | Installed
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hplip-doc | 3.9.12-2

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