Printer colors wrong

[kilaueabart]

I copied a postscript file made with OS4 PageStream to Ubuntu 12.04 LST to see if that would solve a printing problem. When I print multiple copies from OS4, subsequent copies come out about half an inch lower than the first. I get around this problem by printing one copy, and then using the copy function to make the rest, which come out all right.

I assume the problem is that the driver I have on OS4 is not a perfect match to my HP Officejet 6700. When I first launched Ubuntu, it found my printer and suggested a driver. I don't remember its exact name (and I've been away from linux too long to know where to find it) but it had "6500" in its name instead of "6700."

I am going to try for the second time to show the problem via attachment rather than try to describe it. The scan came out huge when I attached it a little while ago (after which the computer conked out for a while and clicking the reboot button looked like it wasn't even working!) but the point is that the lettering should ALL be black, and there should be no color to the right of the photo. If this works, this time...

How to fix?

[xeno74]

Ubuntu 12.04.4 supplies the printing and imaging system HPLIP 3.12.2 and it does not support your printer. The minimum HPLIP version is 3.12.4.

If you like to update your HPLIP printing and imaging system, then install the new backport packages hplip-data 3.13.9 and hplip 3.13.9 with "Force Version" with the Synaptic package manager.

[kilaueabart]

I installed synaptic and apparently managed to install the files suggested, but test print came out AWFUL!

[xeno74]

I installed synaptic and apparently managed to install the files suggested, but test print came out AWFUL!

Could you reconfigure your printer, please? I think you use the 6500 driver.

[kilaueabart]

Could you reconfigure your printer, please? I think you use the 6500 driver.

I think I did so, if I understand what you mean. Went to System Settings... and a couple more clicks got me to Printer Properties - 'Officejet' on localhost, changed Make and Model: to HP Officejet 6700, hpcups 3.13.9. (Device URI: which I didn't touch is usb://HP/Officejet%206700?serial=CN27D3B0D05RQ&interface=1. I assume that has to be correct, whatever it means.)

I changed paper size in Printer Options, clicked Apply, and printed a test page. That was a bit of a worry; two rows of four circles each. The top row had a dark gray-green circle with a half filled in section of the same color on the left, dots on the right, and a mysterious "C" in the middled. Next circle the same, except black, and "M." Third circle mostly imaginary, but I see a faint yellow imitation of the solid part of the first two circles though the surrounding circle is invisible and there is no letter in the middle. The fourth circle is a slightly orangish red matching the first two circles in design and has "K" in the middle.

The bottom row of circles has three like the ones above except colored red with "R," green with "G," and blue with "B." I'm pretty sure I know what those letters stand for. To the right a black circle and a letter-less circle in the middle with ten sections fanning around it. Starting at the one o'clock position they are filled in black, gray, gray, light pink, gray, gray, dark pink, gray and dark gray. Text at the bottom has "Media Limits: 0.13 x 0.46 to 8.14 x 11.10 inches"; I might have thought that means the printer can't print (on?) anything smaller than the form or larger than the latter, but even if that made sense the black lines on the test page run down to the bottom of the sheet and perhaps beyond.

Driver is listed as "hp-officejet_6700.ppd," no Driver Version:.

None of that bothered me (I didn't even notice the yellow problem at first) but toward the upper right it says "ubuntu" in red and there is a blue and white symbol like the one marking "Dash Home" on my desk top (blue for white and white for black) but with random magenta dots in it and magenta lines of varying thickness from the edge of the blue to the black border line, and from the last circle of the second row of circles another thin magenta line going all the way and three short ones that stay inside, all four emanating from the light pink section.

Finally I tried printing the jpeg that aroused my "AWFUL" rating previously. Just as awful, but with an even white margin all the way around.