Epson Stylus C50 not printing correctly on Dapper, Edgy, & Feisty

[garybrlow]

Binary package hint: cupsys-driver-gutenprint

Since Dapper installing an Epson Stylus C50 is ok but when printing, the output is warped and stretched even with correct settings. Guten-print supposedly supports this particular printer and driver driver as stated in their website but apparently there is something wrong it. To print somewhat normally you have to use the C42 driver instead. Am not sure if this an official guten-print bug or an ubuntu bug since I have only tried using the Ubuntu supplied guten-print driver not the official one.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Thanks for your bug report.
Ubuntu uses the official gutenprint 5.0.0 drivers (Edgy and Feisty) without modifications.
According to the gutenprint web pages the Epson Stylus C50 should be supported with the escp2-c50 driver.
It would be nice if somebody with the same printer model could confirm your problem.
More that likely this an upstream problem, somebody should forward this bug into the upstream gutenprint bug tracker (preferably you since they will ask for extra information) and add a bug watch here.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

For me it looks like a problem in Gutenprint itself. I recommend to file a bug upstream, on http://gutnprint.sf.net/. Interim solution would be to modify the PPD file of the C50 which comes with Ubuntu, letting it be based on the PPD for the C42.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Please try the newest Gutenprint packages on Feisty:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/feisty/gutenprint/binary/

Does this solve the problem?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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