On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 10:59 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2003 05:44 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > For the meantime, I would recommend removing any hpoj package on > > your system and leaving the printer-filters package installed, > > you should then be able to print to your printer but not scan > > from it. > > > > Hopefully, once a newer stable version of hpoj is available, you > > will be able to both scan and print. > > For anyone else with an HP printer, the current latest version of > hpijs which is HP's print driver is available from their site 1.4.1 > and I just downloaded it, applied a patch to improve the quality of > black printing when printing in color and compiled it and it worked > like a champ without any extra effort. The quality is markedly > better with the patch because it uses only the black ink cartridge > to print in black instead of mixing from the color ink cartridge. > > If anyone wants links or details, just drop me a line. I might > also consider building an RPM for those of you who want it with the > patch installed.
That does sound a worthwhile improvement. The quality of composite black has always been a bugbear. I'd really like to try this. If it's worth your while building the rpm I'll wait for it, but if not enough people are interested, would you please send me links/instructions so that I can do it myself? Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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