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I succeded in getting working my Canon LBP6000 on XUbuntu 14.04. (Following the instructions in this answer). Now the printer works almost fine.

My problem is that PDF files are printed as black pages. More precisely, the output is a black rectangle sormounted by some fuzzy lines.

It happens independently of the PDF reader I try to use (built-in Chromium reader or Evince). I tried printing PDF into another PDF and the result is fine. Ghostscript is correctly installed and test pages are correctly printed too. Other filetypes like djvu are correctly printed, so it appears as a specifically PDF issue.

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

UPDATES. Also PostScript files behave like PDF.

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Partial solution. Canon CAPT drivers README suggestes it's better to use Acrobat Reader for printing PDF files. This is a working, not fully satisfactory, solution. It should be noted one has to set "Let the printer determine colors" in "Advanced" tab (left bottom corner of the printing acroread form), otherwise the output will have swapped colours: black for the background, white for the text.

Remark 1. So far I've not yet tested whether other readers print well since I've wasted a fair amount of toner and I need it now. Since it's quite annoying being compelled to use Acrobat Reader (which has a ridiculous printing system for multiple pages), please let me know about your experiences with other readers.

Remark 2. Installing acroread do not cause changes in default Ghostscript driver nor in available Ghostscript drivers.

Remark 3. acroread doesn't support opening PostScript files, so I couldn't verify whether issue is fixed for them.

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