[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#695787: cups: bad driver recommended for color laserjet 4500

[Jonas Meyer]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.3-2.4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
the suggested driver for the HP Color Laserjet are truly awful in comparison to the foomatic/pxlcolor driver. All of a sudden the printer is faster than I knew it could be and printing without pausing.
Unfortunately there are rendering mistakes, but those happen with the defualt postscript driver, too.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2+b1
ii  cups-client            1.5.3-2.4
ii  cups-common            1.5.3-2.4
ii  cups-filters           1.0.18-2.1
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.3-2.4
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.46
ii  dpkg                   1.16.9
ii  ghostscript            9.05~dfsg-6.2
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.31-1
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.31-1
ii  libc6                  2.13-37
ii  libcups2               1.5.3-2.4
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.3-2.4
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.3-2.4
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.3-2.4
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.3-2.4
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.8-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.7.2-4
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.20-2
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-3
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10.1+dfsg-3
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.31-1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7.1
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu2
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-9
ii  libstdc++6             4.7.2-4
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.11-1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian8
ii  poppler-utils          0.18.4-3
ii  procps                 1:3.3.3-2
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.32

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon               0.6.31-1
ii  colord                     0.1.21-1
ii  foomatic-filters           4.0.17-1
ii  ghostscript-cups           9.05~dfsg-6.2
ii  printer-driver-gutenprint  5.2.9-1

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                                   1.5.3-2.4
pn  cups-pdf                                   <none>
ii  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db]  20120523-1
ii  hplip                                      3.12.6-3
ii  printer-driver-hpcups                      3.12.6-3
ii  smbclient                                  2:3.6.6-3
ii  udev                                       175-7

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd