Re: Printer Settings
On 05 Jul 2011, KS wrote: On 05/07/11 01:55 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi! Maybe you will give cups a try. - Install cups - Open a browser and type in http://localhost:631 - when the webgui starts, cofigure to your needs. Good luck! Hans CUPS is what I use for my HL-2070N (and temporarily the HL-2070W). For some drivers which I could choose from, it wouldn't even print. So right now I'm using: Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended) Try different drivers to see which suits best. CUPS seems to be the default printer set-up these days but I don't like it. I've always used magicfilter; easy to set up and it's worked with 4 or 5 different printers over the years. You are not confined to the drivers that are supplied with the program; you can add whatever you like in /etc/printcap. Currently I'm using the HL5240 driver for a Brother laser. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110706071218.gg4...@acampbell.org.uk
Re: Printer Settings
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:37:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: using system-config-printer I tried to get a HP DeskJet 600 working. It's printing in disgusting quality only. Years ago I used the same printer. The setup was easy to do and the printing quality was excellent, I can't remember if it was on Debian, but at least it was Linux. If I try to print by best quality using Debian today, the printing is deformed. Standard and draft printings are disgusting, much more worse than they should be. (...) A bad printer driver can give indeed very poor results :-( For that kind of printer I would go for the latest available version of HPLIP and try with that. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.05.17.37...@gmail.com
Re: Printer Settings
Hi! Maybe you will give cups a try. - Install cups - Open a browser and type in http://localhost:631 - when the webgui starts, cofigure to your needs. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107051955.28795.hans.ullr...@loop.de
Re: Printer Settings
On 05/07/11 01:55 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi! Maybe you will give cups a try. - Install cups - Open a browser and type in http://localhost:631 - when the webgui starts, cofigure to your needs. Good luck! Hans CUPS is what I use for my HL-2070N (and temporarily the HL-2070W). For some drivers which I could choose from, it wouldn't even print. So right now I'm using: Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended) Try different drivers to see which suits best. KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e1350d9.6040...@fastmail.fm
Re: Printer Settings
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 18:00 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Forwarded Message From: Camaleón Subject: Re: Printer Settings Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 17:37:29 + (UTC) On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:37:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: using system-config-printer I tried to get a HP DeskJet 600 working. It's printing in disgusting quality only. Years ago I used the same printer. The setup was easy to do and the printing quality was excellent, I can't remember if it was on Debian, but at least it was Linux. If I try to print by best quality using Debian today, the printing is deformed. Standard and draft printings are disgusting, much more worse than they should be. (...) A bad printer driver can give indeed very poor results :-( For that kind of printer I would go for the latest available version of HPLIP and try with that. Greetings, Hi Camaleón :) I've got hpijs and hplip installed, both drivers are bad :(. Right now I installed ijsgutenprint, since a gutenprint driver is able to give good printing quality for fonts, but there's no additional new driver available by system-config-printer. I'm going to install more gutenprint packages as soon as possible. ... Forwarded Message From: Hans-J. Ullrich Subject: Re: Printer Settings Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 19:55:27 +0200 Hi! Maybe you will give cups a try. - Install cups - Open a browser and type in http://localhost:631 - when the webgui starts, cofigure to your needs. Good luck! Hans ... Thank you Hans. I tried starting with this, but it didn't work. Perhaps the needed cups packages were missing, I can try it again as soon as possible. Today and the last days before I just had/have minutes to work on the computer, that makes it more difficult to solve the issue. If possible, please carbon copy to my email address, since I'm receiving digest only. Regards, Ralf -- I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust. ~ Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1309890648.2223.49.camel@debian
Re: Printer Settings
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:30:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I've got hpijs and hplip installed, both drivers are bad :(. Right now I installed ijsgutenprint, since a gutenprint driver is able to give good printing quality for fonts, but there's no additional new driver available by system-config-printer. I'm going to install more gutenprint packages as soon as possible. cups-driver-gutenprint is probably what you want if you're using CUPS. Forget IJS! Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Printer Settings
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:30:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: using system-config-printer I tried to get a HP DeskJet 600 working. It's printing in disgusting quality only. Years ago I used the same printer. The setup was easy to do and the printing quality was excellent, I can't remember if it was on Debian, but at least it was Linux. If I try to print by best quality using Debian today, the printing is deformed. Standard and draft printings are disgusting, much more worse than they should be. (...) A bad printer driver can give indeed very poor results :-( For that kind of printer I would go for the latest available version of HPLIP and try with that. I've got hpijs and hplip installed, both drivers are bad :(. dpkg -l | grep hplip You may want to try with the lastest available version which is 3.11.5. If you already have it installed but still getting bad printing results, you may consider in openenning a bug report: if it was printing okay in older releases then something has changed to worse. But before doing so remember to run a full clean routine to discard clogged ink at print heads :-P Right now I installed ijsgutenprint, since a gutenprint driver is able to give good printing quality for fonts, but there's no additional new driver available by system-config-printer. I'm going to install more gutenprint packages as soon as possible. HPLIP should provide the better driver for your printer and it's not me who says so but: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-DeskJet_600 :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.05.19.43...@gmail.com
Re: Printer Settings
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 20:30 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Right now I installed ijsgutenprint, since a gutenprint driver is able to give good printing quality for fonts, but there's no additional new driver available by system-config-printer. I'm going to install more gutenprint packages as soon as possible. I additionally installed cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.6.1-1. Now there's the 'HP DeskJet 600 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.6' driver available. While the settings don't provide best printing, but standard and draft only, there anyway is the possibility to print fonts in best quality :). I still need to test if there will be any setting for this driver to get a good printing quality for pics too. Since this is the driver that I tested with Maverick too, I don't think that pics will be good :(, anyway, system-config-printer for Debian seems to support different setting options, than the Maverick version seems to support. Resume The drivers 'HP Deskjet 600 hpijs' and 'HP Deskjet, hpcups', I guess provided by the packages 'hpijs' and 'hplip' are garbage, at least when using system-config-printer. The driver 'HP DeskJet 600 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.6', provided by the package 'cups-driver-gutenprint' cause good printing quality for fonts, but photos and graphics are still bad. I can test some more settings using this driver, but I don't have much hope that this will improve something. Does anybody know other HP driver packages? Does anybody know other printer setting apps? If possible, please carbon copy to my email address, since I'm receiving digest only. OT: I found a cheap ink that really dries and this additionally very soon, so that it doesn't smudge, when trying to smudge using a finger. The quality of the black seems to be ok too, it's not one of those pale grey tones instead of black, but it might be still a little bit grey, regarding to dullness by the angle of vision, I didn't compare it with artist's colours or original HP ink until now and only used cheap paper. I also didn't test if it's possible to draw with a layout pencil or any other colour over the printer ink and I can't say if a printing will be ok after being in daylight for one or two month. Compared to other cheap ink I'm already enthralled that it doesn't smudge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1309895053.2223.87.camel@debian
Re: Printer Settings
* KS (2011-07-05): On 05/07/11 01:55 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: [...] CUPS is what I use for my HL-2070N (and temporarily the HL-2070W). For some drivers which I could choose from, it wouldn't even print. So right now I'm using: Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended) Try different drivers to see which suits best. Side note: Brother HL-1250 Foomatic/hl1250 (recommended) works with the HL-2070N, too. -André -- L'art d'ennuyer est de tout dire. [Voltaire] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110706052702.ga18...@albedo.lan
