Ubuntu
ghostscript package

background printed instead of the text

Bug #864509 reported by dino99 on 2011-10-02

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GS-GPL	Fix Released	High	gs-afpl-bugzilla #692568
	ghostscript (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu ubuntu-11.10

Bug Description

Oneiric i386 b2

wanted to print a page (without background color: only text on white page) from the net and get a full page background printed in black and no text visible. Then i first ptint the same page into a pascript (.ps) file, and finally try to print this file: and the result is as expected via this ps file. Sadly Oneiric System Settings Printer dont give printing options, that heavily missing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: hplip-cups 3.11.7-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 2 10:26:51 2011
Lpstat: device for Photosmart-C4500-series: hp:/usb/Photosmart_C4500_series?serial=CN87JD4109057K
MachineType: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC P5W DH Deluxe
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles: Photosmart-C4500-series: HP Photosmart c4500 Series, hpcups 3.11.7
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fr_FR.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic-pae root=UUID=9e61e83e-bca9-43cf-aa90-5a68892213fa ro vga=791 splash quiet crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M acpi_osi=Linux
SourcePackage: hplip
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 10/22/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 3001
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: P5W DH Deluxe
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr3001:bd10/22/2009:svnASUSTEKCOMPUTERINC:pnP5WDHDeluxe:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5WDHDeluxe:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: P5W DH Deluxe
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC

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dino99 (9d9) wrote on 2011-10-02:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (54.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CupsErrorLog.txt Edit (751 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Locale.txt Edit (315 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (15.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (480 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PrintingPackages.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (136.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (253.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-10-02:

Which browser did you use? Which web site did you visit? Can you post the URL here? Can you follow the instructions of the sections "CUPS error_log" and "Capturing print job data" for such a broken job? Can you "Print to File" and choose PDF as output format? Try to display the PDF file with evince and try to print it, does this work?

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-10-02:

Sorry, I meant, Can you follow the instructions of the sections "CUPS error_log" and "Capturing print job data" of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems#preview for such a broken job?

Changed in hplip (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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dino99 (9d9) wrote on 2011-10-03:

browser used: Firefox 7.0.1+build1 (genuine oneiric)
url: http://www.ednes.com/gaz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=47

/var/log/cups/error_log:
E [03/Oct/2011:08:55:17 +0200] Filter "hpgltops" not found.
E [03/Oct/2011:08:55:17 +0200] Filter "pstoraster" not found.
W [03/Oct/2011:08:55:17 +0200] failed to AddProfile: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Failed:profile object path '/org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/Photosmart_C4500_series_Gray__' has already been added
W [03/Oct/2011:08:55:17 +0200] failed to AddProfile: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Failed:profile object path '/org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/Photosmart_C4500_series_RGB__' has already been added

other errors already joined: CupsErrorLog.txt

Changed in hplip (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-10-03:

Thank you very much for the URL.

dino99, for me the page prints perfectly on a completely updated Oneiric 64 bit if I use "File"/"Print" and not the small printer icon on the page. So use this as a workaround.

If I use the printer icon and click it again in the preview which pops up, I can reproduce the problem on my HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 A+ (which uses the same driver as yours). The problem is Ghostscript erroring out on the print data. Moving to Ghostscript ...

Changed in hplip (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
affects:	hplip (Ubuntu) → ghostscript (Ubuntu)
Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → oneiric-updates

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-10-03:

Bug reported upstream as

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692568

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dino99 (9d9) wrote on 2011-10-03:

Thanks Till,
confirm that i got that issue via the printer icon on the page, but have not tested the print file menu

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-10-03

Changed in gs-gpl:
importance:	Unknown → High
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-10-03:

Another possible workaround is to let CUPS allow more memory to be used by Ghostscript. Run the command

cupsctl RIPCache=1024m

and your job should print.

Note that you should have at least 4G of RAM to try this.

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) on 2011-10-06

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-10-06:

The upstream developers have fixed the problem in GIT revision d5f1e72 and I have tested the patch in the Ubuntu package and it actually works.

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) on 2011-10-06

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed
milestone:	oneiric-updates → ubuntu-11.10

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-10-06:

#10

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 9.04~dfsg-0ubuntu11

---------------
ghostscript (9.04~dfsg-0ubuntu11) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/020111005-d5f1e72-clist-fix-for-rgbw-color-mode.patch:
    Fixed color handling in clist (banding) mode to correctly support RGBW
    color space (LP: #864509, Upstream bug 692568).
-- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:00:00 +0200

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-10-06

Changed in gs-gpl:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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