RE: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-14 Thread birgitte nielsen
I think that this mail is sent to the wrong person Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:04:11 -0400 From: dmcgarr...@optonline.net Subject: Re: HP LaserJet question To: users@openoffice.apache.org On 09/06/2013 10:12 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: Doug, I just had a similar thing happen to my HP

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-12 Thread Doug
On 09/06/2013 10:12 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: Doug, I just had a similar thing happen to my HP Laserjet 4050tn. It was very slow getting the pages out. I was using the CUPS Postscript driver and isolated the problem to the printer. Cups showed the document sent and completed as far as it

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-10 Thread Klaus Muth
Am 07.09.2013 19:09, schrieb Gary Aitken: As I recall from a long time ago, PostScript uses reverse polish notation, and you cannot begin printing anything until the entire document has been received -- there's a showpage command at the very end that starts the PostScript interpretation.

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-10 Thread Mattoon Sara
I think you sent this to the wrong person. Best, Sara On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Klaus Muth wrote: Am 07.09.2013 19:09, schrieb Gary Aitken: As I recall from a long time ago, PostScript uses reverse polish notation, and you cannot begin printing anything until the entire document has been

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-07 Thread Athanasios E. Samaras
I bet it's working, Had the same issues with another HP model;) On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 09/06/2013 10:12 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: Doug, I just had a similar thing happen to my HP Laserjet 4050tn. It was very slow getting the pages out. I

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-07 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi Doug, I've an idea what happened to you: Maybe reducing the complexity of graphical objects on the printed output may help you. Go to menu item /tools/options/OpenOffice/printing and activate both checkboxes to reduce transparency and gradients within the printed output. Perhaps that's it

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-07 Thread Doug
On 09/07/2013 09:20 AM, Joost Andrae wrote: Hi Doug, I've an idea what happened to you: Maybe reducing the complexity of graphical objects on the printed output may help you. Go to menu item /tools/options/OpenOffice/printing and activate both checkboxes to reduce transparency and

HP LaserJet question

2013-09-06 Thread Doug
I have an HP LaserJet 2200dn, networked with 3 computers--one normally running Windows 7 and two normally running PCLOS. From Linux, when I send it something to print, sometimes--not always--the busy light will start to flash, and then it may print a couple hours, or a day later, or never. Other

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-06 Thread Girvin Herr
Doug, I just had a similar thing happen to my HP Laserjet 4050tn. It was very slow getting the pages out. I was using the CUPS Postscript driver and isolated the problem to the printer. Cups showed the document sent and completed as far as it was concerned, but the printer LED was still

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-06 Thread Julian Thomas
On 6Sep 2013, at 10:12 PM, Girvin Herr girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I discovered changing the CUPS driver from Postscript to the HP PCL3 driver made it work fine. Now pages print within seconds of clicking on Print. All of my computers are Slackware 14.0 Linux and all of my HP printers

Re: HP LaserJet question

2013-09-06 Thread Doug
On 09/06/2013 10:12 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: Doug, I just had a similar thing happen to my HP Laserjet 4050tn. It was very slow getting the pages out. I was using the CUPS Postscript driver and isolated the problem to the printer. Cups showed the document sent and completed as far as it