[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#580963: cups: Slightly yellow background on many printouts

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder avbidder at fortytwo.ch
Mon May 10 09:00:35 UTC 2010


Package: cups
Version: 1.4.3-1
Severity: important

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Heyho!

(Important firstly of course because it's important to me :-)  But also
because it happens with several printservers on several printers with
different applications.)

I have slightly yellow-ish backgrounds on printouts in various cases.

One example is: fields in OpenOffice.org documents (Oo.org 2.4 and 3.2;
the problem appeared after moving the cups server from an old etch
installation to current squeeze.)

This one happened at first for various printers and is now mostly
affecting HP printers (a Dell printer was "fixed" with a different PPD.)

Another example is printing some web pages (actually emails from a
Zimbra webmail) from Firefox.  There, the Dell printer still has yellow
background, the HP doesn't.)

CUPS test page prints fine in all cases.

I'm a bit at a loss on how to approach this.

In the case of the HP printer: I've set up the printer to three
different installations with quite different set ups (but always up to
date squeeze) and always had this effect.

Any hints?

cheers
- -- vbi


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112            add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                      1.06.95-2        The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-client             1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-common             1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.32           Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript             8.71~dfsg-4      The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-client3        0.6.25-3         Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3        0.6.25-3         Avahi common library
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2                1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupscgi1             1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsdriver1          1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2           1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsmime1            1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsppdc1            1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.5.0-2        GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26             2.8.6-1          the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2        1.8.1+dfsg-2     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35             0.35-7           IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3               1.8.1+dfsg-2     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.17-2.1       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                1.1.1-3          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1               1.1.24           library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler5             0.12.4-1         PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1                 1.2.1-7.7        OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.5.0-2          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-14      userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.1         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules            5.10.1-12        Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils           0.12.4-1         PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                  1:3.2.8-8        /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert                1.0.25           simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont            20090104-6       Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint       5.2.4-1     printer drivers for CUPS
pn  foomatic-filters             <none>      (no description available)
ii  ghostscript-cups             8.71~dfsg-4 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                      1.4.3-1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-pdf                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  cups-ppdc                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db-engine            <none>     (no description available)
ii  hplip                         3.10.2-3   HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  smbclient                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  udev                          153-2      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none>     (no description available)

- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/cups changed:
LOAD_LP_MODULE=no


- -- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd

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