Bug 689354 - HP Deskjet F4400 prints gray instead of black when using hpcups driver
Summary: HP Deskjet F4400 prints gray instead of black when using hpcups driver
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hplip
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-21 07:25 UTC by Jonathan Paulett
Modified: 2011-05-25 03:14 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: hplip-3.11.5-2.fc15
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-25 03:14:32 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Scan of the CUPS test page (792.93 KB, image/jpeg)
2011-03-21 07:26 UTC, Jonathan Paulett
no flags Details
system-config-printer troubleshooter log (35.16 KB, text/plain)
2011-03-21 07:27 UTC, Jonathan Paulett
no flags Details


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Description Jonathan Paulett 2011-03-21 07:25:14 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

When printing any black element using the hpcups driver (version 3.11.1) installed by default, the printer outputs the element as a shade of medium-gray.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Print any black element from a HP Deskjet F4400 using the hpcups driver
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
The element is gray instead of black.


Manually switching the printer to use the hpijs driver apparently resolves the problem.

Comment 1 Jonathan Paulett 2011-03-21 07:26:09 UTC
Created attachment 486553 [details]
Scan of the CUPS test page

Comment 2 Jonathan Paulett 2011-03-21 07:27:06 UTC
Created attachment 486554 [details]
system-config-printer troubleshooter log

Comment 3 Jiri Popelka 2011-03-21 09:20:35 UTC
Have you used the hpcups driver ever before (F4400 has been supported since 3.9.12) ?

Comment 4 Jonathan Paulett 2011-03-21 09:41:12 UTC
Yeah, my F14 partition is using hpcups 3.10.9, and produces correct output.

Comment 5 Jiri Popelka 2011-03-21 09:48:41 UTC
Thanks, can you try also 3.11.3 ?
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=234518 (F15)
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=234514 (rawhide)

Comment 6 Jonathan Paulett 2011-03-21 11:01:31 UTC
3.11.3 produces the same results as 3.11.1 - gray with hpcups, black with hpijs.

Comment 7 Andrew Hutchings 2011-05-10 09:00:50 UTC
Same problem on HP Photosmart 2575 and HP Photosmart C310 and the same workaround.

Comment 8 Jiri Popelka 2011-05-10 13:09:32 UTC
Jonathan,
can you update hplip on your F14 partition from 3.10.9 to 3.11.3a
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=236950
a test it to make sure that this problem is in hplip-3.11.x

You can always downgrade back to 3.10.9 with
yum downgrade 'hplip*' hpijs libsane-hpaio


Andrew,
what does 'rpm -q hplip' command say ?

Comment 9 Jiri Popelka 2011-05-10 13:13:30 UTC
Jonathan,
hplip-3.11.3a-1.fc14 is in testing, so you can also update with
'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing hplip'

Comment 10 Jonathan Paulett 2011-05-11 06:56:26 UTC
Unfortunately, I've already upgraded that partition to F15, so I can't try that. Sorry!

Comment 11 Jiri Popelka 2011-05-12 16:22:09 UTC
What about fresh hplip-3.11.5 ?
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=243695

Comment 12 Jonathan Paulett 2011-05-12 23:30:50 UTC
3.11.5 looks like it has it fixed. Many thanks.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2011-05-13 09:25:55 UTC
hplip-3.11.5-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hplip-3.11.5-1.fc15

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2011-05-14 03:07:26 UTC
Package hplip-3.11.5-1.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing hplip-3.11.5-1.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hplip-3.11.5-1.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2011-05-19 21:59:39 UTC
Package hplip-3.11.5-2.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing hplip-3.11.5-2.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hplip-3.11.5-2.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2011-05-25 03:14:22 UTC
hplip-3.11.5-2.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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