I use (used) turboprint 2.06 with a Canon Pixma ip 4500 printer and it has been working reasonably well in Mepis 8 (KDE 3.5)
I have now upgraded my installation to Mepis 8.5 (KDE 4.3) installed Turboprint, no problems with the installation but....
Turboprint just prints out a totally black sheet whatever the print job is, a test page, a graphic with Gimp or an OpenOffice document.
Is there a solution for this?
Using the regular Canon driver and CUPS, printing is OK although obviously the settings are limited.
Old turboprint and new installation
Hello,
this sounds like a known problem that is caused by a bug in ghostscript.
See also this thread:
http://www.turboprint.info/support/viewtopic.php?t=684
Downgrading ghostscript should help - or upgrading, if a fixed version is already available for Mepis.
There is also a workaround available for TurboPrint: Edit the file
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoturboprint
(64bit Linux: /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstoturboprint
and change line 350 from
if [ $GSCUPSDEVICE -eq 1 ] ; then
to
if [ $GSCUPSDEVICE -eq 2 ] ; then
this sounds like a known problem that is caused by a bug in ghostscript.
See also this thread:
http://www.turboprint.info/support/viewtopic.php?t=684
Downgrading ghostscript should help - or upgrading, if a fixed version is already available for Mepis.
There is also a workaround available for TurboPrint: Edit the file
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoturboprint
(64bit Linux: /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstoturboprint
and change line 350 from
if [ $GSCUPSDEVICE -eq 1 ] ; then
to
if [ $GSCUPSDEVICE -eq 2 ] ; then