I have a strange issue with Brother MFC-5440CN printer. When I print from Linux/CUPS, it prints colours fine. When I print from Windows, using Windows drivers (without Samba), it also prints fine. When I print from Windows through Samba/CUPS (drivers added using cupsaddsmb...), it gives me wrong colours: expected | result -------------------- yellow | blue blue | red red | green green | dark-blue It only happens from certain applications, like OpenOffice, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. When I print from Adobe Acrobat Reader, it gives me correct colours (documents which gave wrong colours in OpenOffice, print correct colours when exported to PDF and printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader). I have Samba 3.0.20 and CUPS 1.2.1, the clients are XP SP2. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
I have a strange issue with Brother MFC-5440CN printer. When I print from Linux/CUPS, it prints colours fine. When I print from Windows, using Windows drivers (without Samba), it also prints fine. When I print from Windows through Samba/CUPS (drivers added using cupsaddsmb...), it gives me wrong colours: expected | result -------------------- yellow | blue blue | red red | green green | dark-blue It only happens from certain applications, like OpenOffice, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. When I print from Adobe Acrobat Reader, it gives me correct colours (documents which gave wrong colours in OpenOffice, print correct colours when exported to PDF and printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader). I have Samba 3.0.20 and CUPS 1.2.1, the clients are XP SP2. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org We had problems setting printer options until we upgraded to cups 1.2.3. Not sure if that's your problem, but it's worth a try. Jim
I think it would be better if you also raise this issue to the printer manufacturer...they should have a testcases for this...it might be a driver or application problem... thanks, warren
Warren Beldad wrote:> I think it would be better if you also raise this issue to the printer > manufacturer...they should have a testcases for this...it might be a > driver or application problem...Yeah I did, but Brother is not very helpful: all they have to say is to use Windows drivers... And it looks like they never heard about tools like "cupsaddsmb" or using Samba as a print server. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org