Dark, "double-printing" black ink over color
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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CUPS driver for Kodak ESP 5xxx AiO |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It appears based on test prints with a Kodak ESP 5250 and both the 15-1 and 18-1 versions of C2esp that the printer is printing the image twice-once with color ink and again with black ink. This is clearly visible in the Ubuntu test pattern and anything other than a text file printed from the computer. The version of Ubuntu I am using is 11.04 (Natty), now in Beta.
if a jpeg is saved onto a camera card and is large enough (in format) to resemble one from a camera, the printer can print it from the card just fine. It copies fine from it's own scanner as well. Same for it's native test pattern printed from the printer's own controls. The "double print" issue seems to exist only when printing fom the computer, so the bug must either be in C2esp or somewhere in CUPS.
Can you clarify the problem?
Do you mean that prints do not look like the picture?
Or that in black pixels, coloured ink is being wasted by being mixed with black when black on its own would do?
When I print the ubuntu test page, the print looks like the test page.
For example the red strip varies from black at the LHS to red at the RHS of the page.
The ubuntu test page file is attached, when you view it does it look the same as when you print it?