Oki c3200 laser printer color catastrophe

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:54:36PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
> Alright, maybe not a catastrophe, but still..
> I lucked into a color laser printer (wwink) and just in time, too, cuz I  
> gots colored things ta print, but DANG! dem colors is ugly !
>
> In black an white, it's all crisp and loverly, but go to color mode and  
> ppeee-yewww ! it's like BAD ! colors are triple saturated, and  
> registration between colors is off. It's bad enough that the test chart  
> looks like an abstract. This is after running the auto-color calibration  
> and then manually dialing the C, the M and the Y all the way down (three  
> notches)
>
> It's like I'm using the wrong driver, or color-system, but I'm not.
> It's an off-the-shelf linux driver and sending postscript to a  
> postscript printer.

Well the .ppd file should have options for colour settings that
applications can use, so maybe that is an option.

> clues ?

If you want good colour, you use an epson inkjet, not a laser printer
in general.  Some have pantone calibration and such (some xerox models
for example) that may help, but I don't know if very many do.

Of course it could be defective too.

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Len Sorensen
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