Bug 619783

Summary: Epson C67 printing black page
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Ricardo Jorge <ricardoj>
Component: PrintingAssignee: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: akontsevich, werner
Version: RC 1   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Description Ricardo Jorge 2010-07-04 13:32:05 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-BR; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100527 SUSE/3.6.4-2.2 Firefox/3.6.4

My printer is an Epson C67 which has no configuration available in the CUPS for a long time, but I was able to use C64 configuration changing a line inside the C64 PPD to use it for my C67. Without changing that line, every time I try to print the print prints a black page. As I can not find the line inside the new C64 PPD I can not use the old "trick". In the past I used information from that link http://www.fixya.com/support/t174960-printer_drive_epson_stylus_c67 ( Solution #3 ) to print using OpenSuSE 11.1 and 11.2. The "trick" was :
" Problem solved:
I found out that the problem was the setting "GSResolution=360x240DPI"
in the draft print out mode. Then edited the ppd file in /etc/cups,
generated by Yast with the drive c64 and changed the resolution to
360X360. Now it works. Nevertheless I think I would prefer to write a
proper driver with this modification already included. I shall try that
as soon as I find out where linux keeps the original driver c67, which
appears in Yast.
"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add your printer ( Epson C67 )
2. You can not find the correct configuration so you try to use a similar one ( Epson C64 )
3. Try to print a test page and you get a black page.
Actual Results:  
Get a black page.

Expected Results:  
See the print test in the page
Comment 1 Johannes Meixner 2010-07-06 07:51:06 UTC
It looks like a duplicate of bug #603131
which is probably this Gostscript upstream bug
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691108
where the CUPS raster driver produces mostly black raster data
see in particular the "Screenshot of rasterview output" at
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/attachment.cgi?id=5951

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 603131 ***
Comment 2 Aleksey Kontsevich 2010-09-12 12:08:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
Have same situation for Epson R290/295. Seems not a driver issue.