Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:46:29PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:
> 
> I've just installed a Canon Pixma iP4500 on a 6.3 system using CUPS and 
> gutenprint. Black printing is fine but I've got problems with colours. 
> The colour wheel on the CUPS test page comes out as a psychedelic 
> collection of brightly coloured rings. If I print from gimp then the 
> correct colours appear but they are very dark and "muddy". The colours 
> start to look a bit more reasonable from the gimp if I push the gamma 
> value up to 2.

Have you installed a .ppd file for this printer? This is a file that
tells cups about the capabilities of this printer.

See http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_IP4300_OR_PIXMA_IP4500

I'm not sure if just installing the ppd file works. It does for my
PostScript printer.

Roland
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