Trying a test page with the stcolor driver (via system config) produces blue text (no black) So it looks as if the driver has other issues as well. Trying the test pages with the working gs prn files you sent produces only a colour wheel with incorrect colours and no text. This produces a test page and I can successfully print spreadsheets and documents in black.Īs a workaround this works for me for the black print head.Īs a matter if interest as the ghostscript bug refers to incorrect colours I searched and found my printer colour print head and cartridge although it has not been used for years. I then tried the alternative Epson Stylus Color Foomatic/stcolor, driver name STCOLOR.PPD Driver version 1.1. This bug does not appear to be the same as my issue but could be related.įollowing the suggestion of trying gutenprint (although the printer is not supported) I installed gutenprint-cups and tried a gutenprint driver for the epson stylus color.

Which refers to the mj500c driver and ghostscript 'broken' this links to a bug Searching the internet for related items I came across

Printer test page black and white