I have two printers configured in cups, an Epson Stylus Photo R2400 and an HP Laserjet 1200. The Laserjet works fine. I can drive the Epson satisfactorily using PhotoPrint with PhotoPrint's own colour correction. However, when I try to either run the Epson from applications (such as LightZone) which generate PDFs, or when I try to print CUPS' own test page, then it calls pdftoraster-poppler, and the following bad things happen:
i) Unmodified, it uses the attached PPD, which (as you can see) refers to an sRGB colour profile that is stored somewhere on a Mac OSX filesystem. Quite correctly, it reports this as not found. Incidentally, if I run this ppd through cupstestppd, it says it can't find the sRGB profile, so someone hasn't been doing regression testing.
ii) If I edit the PPD to point to the sRGB which I have on my system, then pdftoraster-poppler fails with a
"Bogus memory allocation size" message. (Relevant portion of /var/log/cups/error.log attached).
There are suggestions in the fora that I should make pdftoraster.poppler a symlink to pdftoraster, which calls
ghostscript, but I get another error message if I do that (to the effect that gs can't find the default lab colour profile).
In any case, I want pdftoraster-poppler to work, because it's part of the new colour corrected printing chain, which
seems to me to be a good idea.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 2e1819d997bf66315c0605fd5b706346
CheckboxSystem: 91945207d732350068f2b1aa7b5d7083
Date: Mon Jul 25 22:06:32 2011
Lpstat:
device for colour307: lpd://staffprint.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/colour307
device for Epson: ipp://192.168.0.4:631/printers/Epson
device for laser415a: lpd://staffprint.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/laser415a
device for laserjet: ipp://192.168.0.4:631/printers/laserjet
device for PDF: cups-pdf:/
MachineType: Apple Computer, Inc. MacBook1,1
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles:
laserjet: HP LaserJet 1300 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.6
colour307: HP Color LaserJet v2013.114 Postscript (recommended)
Epson: Epson Stylus Photo R2400 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.6
PDF: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
laser415a: HP LaserJet 9040 Postscript (recommended)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=6e204b54-93e7-4eb5-9833-e24ef8ae69b6 ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-20 (65 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/12/06
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MB11.88Z.0061.B03.0610121324
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Mac-F4208CC8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
dmi.board.version: PVT
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F4208CC8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleComputer,Inc.:bvrMB11.88Z.0061.B03.0610121324:bd10/12/06:svnAppleComputer,Inc.:pnMacBook1,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleComputer,Inc.:rnMac-F4208CC8:rvrPVT:cvnAppleComputer,Inc.:ct10:cvrMac-F4208CC8:
dmi.product.name: MacBook1,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
Does your Epson not simply work if you ignore the warning of the missing color profile, leaving the PPD file unchanged?
Can you also try a live CD of Oneiric, as there Ghostscript will be used by default and during the last weeks a lot of fixes were done on Ghostscript.