TurboPrint & PrintFab

I am using Turboprint 2.14 32 bit on a Mepis 8.5 system (Debian Lenny & kernel 2.6.32-16). The printer (Canon Pixma iP4000) is linked to the computer via USB. It is a fresh install. When I try printing a test page with Turboprint, only black (almost) pages appears. But it prints correctly with CUPS driver iP4000.

Mu CUPS version is 1.3.8-1lenny8, and Ghostscript 8.71~dfsg2. If I want to install newer CUPS/Ghostscript versions (say SID or Squeeze), a lot of dependencies appear, so there are risk of instability.

The printer worked fine previously, before upgrading.

Some clues, please?

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.

The 8.71 version of Ghostscript are the newer with this edition of MEPIS. As said, newer versions led to a lot of dependences. Looking for the last Lenny stable Ghostscript (8.62) also a lot of apps (mainly KOffice) should be erased/downgraded/who_knows.

As I still kept the later version of Turboprint 1.X (1.96-4), once installed it, all worked as intended (testpage only, BTW). Even the "old" 2.x version of TP (2.06-1) showed the same issues - in fact, emptied the black ink cartridge.

If a newer version of TP does not fix it, I'll keep the TP 1.96 until a new Ghostscript shows in the repos.

Thanks for your help.

I've been using an old version up to now, due to the black pages issue.
But today, with the upgrade to 2.16, the printer works again flawlessly.