Re: [Cooker] Printing problems with latest cooker
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 04:53, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: Having upgraded to the latest cooker, specifically: cups-1.1.18-5mdk cups-drivers-1.1-93mdk gimpprint-4.2.5-7mdk foomatic-filters-3.0-0.beta1.20030203.1mdk I observe the following strange behaviour: - Having set up my printer using the CUPS web interface, I can click on Print Test Page, and the Mandrake Linux test page prints just fine. - However, if I open up kups and choose to print a test page, only the first couple of lines get printed, then the page is ejected. - If I open the test page in kview and press Print, then I get a page completely covered in black ink. Not good. - If I try to print ANY PostScript file using lpr, or try to print from any program (kword, Mozilla, for example), I get a page full of black ink. Not good. I'm a total loss to figure out why. I have an HP DeskJet 895Cxi. I'm using the HP DeskJet 895C, CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5 driver. Driver settings: - Output Mode: Colour. Changing this makes no difference in behaviour. - Resolution: 600x600 DPI. Changing this make no difference in behaviour. - Media Size: Letter, Media Type: Plain - STP: Brightness 1.0, Contrast 1.0, Cyan 1.0, Density 1.0, Dither Algorithm: Adaptive Hybrid, Gamma 1.0, Image Type: Solid Colours, Magenta: 1.0, Saturation: 1.0, Yellow: 1.0. Changing any of the above does not alter the behaviour observed. Prior to upgrading to Cooker (from a 9.0 install), the printer operatoed correctly. Any suggestions? For a start, don't use gimp-print. It's not related to your problem, but HP's ijs stuff is way, way better for HP printers than gimp-print. Use the hpijs drivers, not gimp-print. -- adamw
Re: [Cooker] Printing problems with latest cooker
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:43:53AM +, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 04:53, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: Any suggestions? For a start, don't use gimp-print. It's not related to your problem, but HP's ijs stuff is way, way better for HP printers than gimp-print. Use the hpijs drivers, not gimp-print. Thanks for the advice. Now... how do I use the hpijs drivers? What do I need to install? How do I configure them? -- Ryan T. Sammartino http://members.shaw.ca/ryants/ Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H.H. Williams
Re: [Cooker] Printing problems with latest cooker
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 17:36, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:43:53AM +, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 04:53, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: Any suggestions? For a start, don't use gimp-print. It's not related to your problem, but HP's ijs stuff is way, way better for HP printers than gimp-print. Use the hpijs drivers, not gimp-print. Thanks for the advice. Now... how do I use the hpijs drivers? What do I need to install? How do I configure them? Presumably they're in the printer-drivers metapackage. All you need to do to use them is re-run printerdrake and select the ijs / hpijs (I forget which it is) option, it's all integrated into printerdrake. For my HP 840C these were the recommended option. -- adamw
[Cooker] Printing problems with latest cooker
Having upgraded to the latest cooker, specifically: cups-1.1.18-5mdk cups-drivers-1.1-93mdk gimpprint-4.2.5-7mdk foomatic-filters-3.0-0.beta1.20030203.1mdk I observe the following strange behaviour: - Having set up my printer using the CUPS web interface, I can click on Print Test Page, and the Mandrake Linux test page prints just fine. - However, if I open up kups and choose to print a test page, only the first couple of lines get printed, then the page is ejected. - If I open the test page in kview and press Print, then I get a page completely covered in black ink. Not good. - If I try to print ANY PostScript file using lpr, or try to print from any program (kword, Mozilla, for example), I get a page full of black ink. Not good. I'm a total loss to figure out why. I have an HP DeskJet 895Cxi. I'm using the HP DeskJet 895C, CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5 driver. Driver settings: - Output Mode: Colour. Changing this makes no difference in behaviour. - Resolution: 600x600 DPI. Changing this make no difference in behaviour. - Media Size: Letter, Media Type: Plain - STP: Brightness 1.0, Contrast 1.0, Cyan 1.0, Density 1.0, Dither Algorithm: Adaptive Hybrid, Gamma 1.0, Image Type: Solid Colours, Magenta: 1.0, Saturation: 1.0, Yellow: 1.0. Changing any of the above does not alter the behaviour observed. Prior to upgrading to Cooker (from a 9.0 install), the printer operatoed correctly. Any suggestions? -- Ryan T. Sammartino http://members.shaw.ca/ryants/ If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.
Re: [Cooker] Printing problems with latest cooker
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:53:32PM -0800, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: - Having set up my printer using the CUPS web interface, I can click on Print Test Page, and the Mandrake Linux test page prints just fine. - However, if I open up kups and choose to print a test page, only the first couple of lines get printed, then the page is ejected. - If I open the test page in kview and press Print, then I get a page completely covered in black ink. Not good. - If I try to print ANY PostScript file using lpr, or try to print from any program (kword, Mozilla, for example), I get a page full of black ink. Not good. More info: when I print from the web interface, I see these proceses: /bin/sh /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster 580 Test Page 1 lp 580 Test Page 1 parallel:/dev/lp1 580 Test Page 1 /usr/bin/gs -dQUIET -dDEBUG -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOMEDIAATTRS -sDEVICE=cups -sstdout=%stderr -sOUTPUTFILE=%stdout -c - This produces a proper print out. When I print with lpr: /bin/sh /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster 582 ryants test.ps 1 StpGamma=1.000 Density=1.000 StpBrightness=1.000 StpSaturation=1.000 Contrast=1.00 lp 582 ryants mozilla.ps 1 StpGamma=1.000 Density=1.000 StpBrightness=1.000 StpSaturation=1.000 Contrast=1.000 Cyan=1.000 Magenta=1.000 Yellow=1.0 parallel:/dev/lp1 582 ryants test.ps 1 StpGamma=1.000 Density=1.000 StpBrightness=1.000 StpSaturation=1.000 Contrast=1.000 Cyan=1.000 Magenta=1 /usr/bin/gs -dQUIET -dDEBUG -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOMEDIAATTRS -sDEVICE=cups -sstdout=%stderr -sOUTPUTFILE=%stdout -c - This results in a page full of black ink. So why does printing from the Web interface do one thing, but lpr does another? How do I influence lpr's behaviour? -- Ryan T. Sammartino http://members.shaw.ca/ryants/ Moneyliness is next to Godliness. -- Andries van Dam
