Comment 14 for bug 977457

Hiho,

I can confirm #13 regarding to the quality-settings. By using the testpage-function of CUPSthe colors appear as follows:
cyan -> pink (like magenta but lighter and/or with less saturation)
magenta → brown
yellow → white
black → black
red → green (only a little bit lighter than the correct green)
green → only the thin bounding circle (but in cyan)
blue → dark blue, near to dark purple
the circle with 10 grayscale pieces → only a half circle with 5 gray pieces (the lightest one is lighter than the lightest one of the correct circle and the bounding circle is also missing)

I have also tested the normal quality option with the “hp-color_laserjet_3600.ppd” file of the hplip-3.12.4.tar.gz from the hplip project on sourceforge.net by using CUPS-function to specify a ppd file manually (thus, still using hplip 3.12.2 of the ubuntu 12.04 packages). This leads to the same behaviour (normal quality provides a faulty result, best quality provides a good result).

I also printed the test page as a pdf and compared an Ubuntu-best-Printout with a Windows-standard-Printout and could not see any differences in saturation excepting a tiny little bit darker black-level on the ubuntu-printout. For this reason I think that there won’t be a big waste of toner by using best quality setting.