Bug 711883

Summary: Saturation when printing on HP Photosmart 8400 is too low
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Erik P. Olsen <erik>
Component: hplipAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: jpopelka, twaugh
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PPD file for HP Photosmart 8400
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Settings window of Printer Properties
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Description Erik P. Olsen 2011-06-08 21:05:46 UTC
HP PhotoSmart 8400 Foomatic/hpijs
kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64

When printing on this printer the colours come out somewhat misty. When same images are printed on Windows the colours look perfect. Changing the saturation for the printer from 100 to 200 corrects the colour perception.

Comment 1 Jiri Popelka 2011-06-09 08:37:42 UTC
Please attach the PPD file from /etc/cups/ppd

Comment 2 Erik P. Olsen 2011-06-09 12:26:07 UTC
Created attachment 503878 [details]
PPD file for HP Photosmart 8400

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2011-06-13 11:36:17 UTC
Erik: there is no "saturation" option for this printer.  Did you attach the correct PPD file?

Comment 4 Erik P. Olsen 2011-06-13 12:23:12 UTC
Created attachment 504428 [details]
Settings window of Printer Properties

Comment 5 Erik P. Olsen 2011-06-13 12:24:26 UTC
Created attachment 504429 [details]
Part of Job Options of Printer Properties

Comment 6 Erik P. Olsen 2011-06-13 12:27:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Erik: there is no "saturation" option for this printer.  Did you attach the
> correct PPD file?

This is strange. Yes, I did opload the correct file. As an added information I have now oploaded the Settings and the Job Options (part of) windows, so you can see where the saturation is changed.

Hope this helps.

Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2011-06-13 12:37:33 UTC
Oh, I see, thanks for clarifying it.

Comment 8 Tim Waugh 2011-06-14 14:39:00 UTC
If you use the hpcups driver instead, does that give better results?

(From the dialog shown in comment #4, click 'Change...' next to 'Make and Model:'.)

Comment 9 Erik P. Olsen 2011-06-14 18:21:25 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> If you use the hpcups driver instead, does that give better results?
> 
> (From the dialog shown in comment #4, click 'Change...' next to 'Make and
> Model:'.)

Slightly better, but hpcups is slooooooooooooooow. 4min 15sec to print an A4 page where hpijs.ppd took 40sec only. So hpcups is not a viable solution.

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