[Jaunty] Transparent areas are printed in black
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| GS-GPL |
Fix Released
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| ghostscript (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: cups
I am using Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 on amd64.
Every time I print an image through The GIMP or eog, the completely transparent areas are printed in black.
Steps to reproduce:
1. open a .png image with alpha areas in The GIMP or eog
2. print it
Expected result: completely alpha areas are "white" (there should be no ink in these areas)
What happens: completely alpha areas are #000, complete black.
The printer I am using is an Epson Stylus Photo R220, and this problem was not present in Intrepid.
I can reproduce it with every printing quality (economy, 360dpi, 720dpi,...), rgb or greyscale.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog:
E [17/Apr/
E [17/Apr/
E [17/Apr/
E [17/Apr/
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Lpstat: dispositivo per Epson-Stylus-
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Package: cups 1.3.9-17
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles: Epson-Stylus-
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: cups

I also see this issue when printing a transparent SVG using an HP Photosmart D7260. Interestingly, print preview shows a white background when using Eye of Gnome, but the background is printed as solid black. I also tried setting White as a custom colour from within Preferences -> Image View -> Transparent Parts, but this did not help.