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Title: Printer: Canon BJC 610/620 and Ghostscript 4.03/3.53

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Printer: Canon BJC 610/620 and Ghostscript 4.03/3.53

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions up to (including) 5.0
Ghostscript: Version 3.53, 4.01, 4.03

Symptom:

When printing with a Canon BJC 610 or 620 only garbled output appears. This happens despite the fact that you've chosen the bjc600 driver.

Cause:

The default printing mode of the Canon BJC 610 or 620 is not set to the grahics mode.

Solution:

Here's a short description of the configuration of a Canon BJC 610 or 620 in order to use it with Ghostscript 3.53, 4.01 or 4.03 .

  1. On the printer side: switch DIP-switch number 8 to On . In order to do this, lift the printer cover and follow the description on the inside of the cover or the description in the printer manual. In addition to this end of line should be marked by Linefeed instead of CarriageReturn+Linefeed .

  2. It is recommended to readjust the print head after ther printer was moved or when it is being switched on for the first time. Further information about this topic can be found in the Canon printer manual.

  3. Under Linux: Choose the driver bjc600 in YaST's printer configuration and set the resolution to 360x360 DPI. A higher resolution is listed in the manual. However, since the amount of ink for each ink injector of the print head isn't regulated, this leads to extremely bold printing and thus isn't usable.

Hint :

For the printing of scanned photos it is recommended to follow the description of the Printing-HOWTO (/usr/doc/howto/Printing-HOWTO.gz, package howto) and to create a file gamma.ps in order to correct for too dark colors or a fraction of red in the colors that is too large.

%!PS
%   gamma.ps
% transfer functions for
% cyan        magenta     yellow       black
{0.225 exp} {0.165 exp} {0.213 exp} {0.165 exp} setcolortransfer
The values can be adjusted according to your needs and the original photo. Printing of file.ps is possible with the command
gs -q -sDEVICE=bjc600 -r360x360 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dBitsPerPixel=32 -dNOPAUSE \
      -sOutputFile='|lpr -Praw' gamma.ps file.ps -c quit
(note the '\' at the end of the line). When using transparencies or coated paper it is recommended to insert the option -sMediaType=TransparencyFilm after -dBitsPerPixel=32 (separated by a blank).

The above command can be used as a pattern for a shell alias or a simple shell script.

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Keywords: BJC, BJC610, BJC620, CANON, GHOSTSCRIPT, PRINTER, BUBBLEJET

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