CUPS-CALIBRATE(8)

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💅 CUPS-CALIBRATE(8) — the Gutenprint manual pages, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this one's from the Gutenprint Manual Pages section, and it's literally about making your printer's colors not look cursed. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

cups-calibrate — the ESP CUPS Printer Calibration Tool, no cap 🖨️💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cups-calibrate

that's it. no flags, no args, just vibes and a command name. periodt 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🍵 — this program lets you calibrate the color output of printers that are using the Gutenprint CUPS driver. that's the whole main character energy of it.

⚠️ but listen — this program only works with the Gutenprint CUPS driver. like, exclusively. if you're on some other driver, this is not your moment 😭

how do you even know if you've got the right one? the drivers are identified by the text CUPS+Gutenprint in the model description that the CUPS web interface shows you. so go look at that model description and look for CUPS+Gutenprint — if it's there, you're in the right place 🫶

and here's the part where you gotta be a little careful 👑: if you want to make a calibration profile for all users, you need to run this program as the root user. yes, root. the big one. 🔥

once it's running, the program displays a series of prompts and honestly you should simply follow them — that's it, that's the whole process. it walks you through, you follow along, slay 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Copyright © 2001 Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com) 🎀

this program is free software — you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. iconic of it, honestly 🫶

also giving credit where it's due: this manual page was written by Roger Leigh (rleigh@debian.org) ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚💫 — Version 5.3.5, dated 12 Mar 2025, brought to you by the Gutenprint girlies. go calibrate those colors and make them pop 🌸💅🔥

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