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Pierre-Henri Jondot wrote: |
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>>Then I got a tip from Donny Davies (a Gentoo Developer), who forwarded to |
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>>me Jeffrey D. Kowing's message regarding this matter in [gentoo-dev], |
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>>where he says that getting a fresh *.ppd from sourceforge.net solves the |
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>>problem. So I went to sourceforge and got a PPD file for my HP LasetJet |
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>>4M, which is generated as HP-LaserJet_4M-ljet4-ppd.ppd, put it into my |
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>>/usr/share/cups/model/ with all other PPD's, deleted my current printers |
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>>and ran from the commandline (for JetDirect) |
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> did it too... |
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>>And it worked like a charm. The only thing I wasn't able to understand is |
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>>why it generated two empty sheets of paper before the job comes out, but |
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>>hey - it's recyclable :)) |
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> the same for me (not for every print but certainly for some) and my laserjet |
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> 5l, and it really annoys me... The more often I only print a page or two... |
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> I parsed the ppd file without having the slightest idea of what to adjust... |
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> When manually invoking ghostscript, I've never encountered this problem. A |
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> fix would be greatly appreciated there... |
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have you tried to download the PPD from linuxprinting.org ? |
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There are a couple of "drivers" available for HP ljet: |
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ljet4 |
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hpijs |
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gimp-print |
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gimp-print-ijs (emerge hpijs ...) |
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I didn't try with HP 5L but it helped Denis. (which has a postscript |
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printer) |
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Denis Shcherbakov wrote: ( |
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> I installed it now, tried it - it works beautifully, and the empty pages |
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> are gone!! |
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