Bad cups printing after upgrade from sarge to etch
Hi. I had a sarge system running as a print server. After upgrading it to etch, I recreated the cups config files (the old ones didn't work) and the printers. The strange thing is... I have an Epson Stylus Color 850, and there are two drivers in the list given by Cups that would work with it: - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.0 - Foomatic/stc800ih.upp So... The Gutenprint driver doesn't seem to honor what I give in the configuration web page. It always renders with low resolution. I tried choosing all combinations of: Print Quality: Manual Control, High, Best Resolution: 720 DPI, 1440 x 720 DPI Highest Resolution on the web interface. And the stc800ih.upp prints with the resolution I choose, but always prints an EJL control sequence before printing the job: 284.4 @EJL I found a few references to this on the web, but nothing that actually helped (mostly Windows users complaining about it and being told to, er, remove the banner generated by the application). I didn't find anything in the bug tracking system that could help. Maybe there's something I forgot to check? Thanks a lot, J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bad cups printing after upgrade from sarge to etch
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 14:43:21 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: Hi. I had a sarge system running as a print server. After upgrading it to etch, I recreated the cups config files (the old ones didn't work) and the printers. The strange thing is... I have an Epson Stylus Color 850, and there are two drivers in the list given by Cups that would work with it: - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.0 - Foomatic/stc800ih.upp So... The Gutenprint driver doesn't seem to honor what I give in the configuration web page. It always renders with low resolution. I tried choosing all combinations of: Print Quality: Manual Control, High, Best Resolution: 720 DPI, 1440 x 720 DPI Highest Resolution on the web interface. And the stc800ih.upp prints with the resolution I choose, but always prints an EJL control sequence before printing the job: 284.4 @EJL I found a few references to this on the web, but nothing that actually helped (mostly Windows users complaining about it and being told to, er, remove the banner generated by the application). I didn't find anything in the bug tracking system that could help. Maybe there's something I forgot to check? I would try to change the quality setting by using the lpoptions command, both as your normal user and as root. Maybe this will turn up a clue. Is your normal user a member of the lpadmin group? The manpage of lpoptions has all the details; it should work something like this: $ lpoptions -l | grep -i quality Quality/Resolution, Quality, Ink Type, Media Type: *FromPrintoutMode 300DraftGrayscaleK 300GrayscaleK 600GrayscaleK $ lpoptions -o Quality=600GrayscaleK $ lpoptions -l | grep -i quality Quality/Resolution, Quality, Ink Type, Media Type: FromPrintoutMode 300DraftGrayscaleK 300GrayscaleK *600GrayscaleK $ lpoptions -o Quality=FromPrintoutMode $ lpoptions -l | grep -i quality Quality/Resolution, Quality, Ink Type, Media Type: *FromPrintoutMode 300DraftGrayscaleK 300GrayscaleK 600GrayscaleK (With your printer you will probably have different values to choose from. The active setting is always marked with an asterisk *.) -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bad cups printing after upgrade from sarge to etch
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:55:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: I would try to change the quality setting by using the lpoptions command, both as your normal user and as root. Maybe this will turn up a clue. Is your normal user a member of the lpadmin group? No, but I can do that as root; The manpage of lpoptions has all the details; it should work something like this: $ lpoptions -l | grep -i quality Quality/Resolution, Quality, Ink Type, Media Type: *FromPrintoutMode 300DraftGrayscaleK 300GrayscaleK 600GrayscaleK $ lpoptions -o Quality=600GrayscaleK $ lpoptions -l | grep -i quality Quality/Resolution, Quality, Ink Type, Media Type: FromPrintoutMode 300DraftGrayscaleK 300GrayscaleK *600GrayscaleK OK, that works. There are two settings, Quality and Resolution. When I change them using lpoptions, then lpoptions gives back the changed values. (But the web interface doesn't). But the resolution is still the lowest. Then I tried setting with both lpoptions and the web interface. Didn't work either. So I tried something else: I used another driver, called Epson Stylus Color 800 Foomatic/stcolor (recommended) (en). It's not for the STC 850... But it works! (Although it won't print in 1440x720, but I don't need that -- 720 DPI is enough). Anyway, it seems taht the stc800ih PPD is broken. Nobody else had that problem? (The EJL control sequence being printed) Thanks, J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
