Wrong yellowish colors printing with Epson Stylus Photo R220

[Damiano Dallatana]

Binary package hint: cups

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 updated as of today from beta 6.
With Ubuntu 9.04 I had no problems at all using my Epson Stylus Photo R220. Now I am unable to have a decent print from Ubuntu.
I tried printing a black and white file made with inkscape, but it became black and yellow. Tried saving it as a pdf and printing with evince: same problem. Tried doing a png and printing with GIMP: same yellow print.
Today I saved an Inkscape page (with colors) as pdf and tried printing with acroread (from Canonical partners' repository): the green becames yellow with stripes, a blue gradient goes from yellow to pink and violet, and a blue square becames dark grey.
I tried printing the ubuntu test page and the automatic test page, and they both come out perfectly.

I am at your disposal for any other information you may need to find out the problem. I don't want to reboot every now and open windows just to print a page!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 1 00:34:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lpstat: device for Stylus-Photo-R220: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20R220
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Package: cups 1.4.1-5ubuntu2
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles: Stylus-Photo-R220: Epson Stylus Photo R220 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.4
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=f181aa04-927a-4c25-8859-38d95eb55d8b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: cups
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 02/19/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P1.70
dmi.board.name: 4Core1333-FullHD
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.70:bd02/19/2008:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvn:rn4Core1333-FullHD:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Sorry for the late reply.

Ubuntu 9.10 is no longer supported, can you try a supported release: preferably 14.04LTS with newer gutenprint.

Thanks in advance,
Pascal

[Damiano Dallatana (damidalla)]

I don't have the printer anymore... marking as invalid.