Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems : hiccups solve them

[Mick]

On Thursday 05 Nov 2015 06:21:16 Philip Webb wrote:
> 151103 Philip Webb wrote:
> > The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality,
> > but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge).
> > Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality' or 'best'.
> >
> > In Mint, when that is set via the 631 menu, printing works correctly :
> > I can print text files via Gvim (icon or  :ha ) & Gedit,  .odt  via LO
> > & PDF via Evince ; Gedit & Evince have their own quality settings.
> >
> > In Gentoo, the 631 setting has no effect, so all printing is draft.
> > Only Kwrite has its own quality setting, which does work properly for
> > text.
>
> I've found the source of the problem.
> It's necessary to choose the 'hpcups' driver, not the 'hpijs' driver,
> when setting up the printer via the 631 menu.
> Once that's done, Gvim Okular LO all print 'best' quality correctly.
>
> There is also a quality setting hidden away in the LO menus :
>  tools -> options -> LO -> print : set 'high' = 300 dpi.
>
> My route to the solution was via trying the 'gutenprint' pkg.
> It doesn't offer a driver for an HP DJ 2510 , only 2500 or 2540,
> but that led me to look thro' the other drivers in the 631 menu
> & one of them was 'hpcups'.
>
> I'm surprised -- well, am I really ? -- that there's no mention of all this
> in any of the dox, wikis, Forum discussions etc etc I've scoured.
> However as usual, all problems with Gentoo are  1  level deep :
> find where it is & the solution falls into place promptly (smile).

Ahh!  Yes, I forgot about this.  Sorry  :-)

hpcups is the newer driver for HP printers.  On a new box I set up hpcups and 
it worked with my old HP printer, without hpjis, but older boxen still print 
fine with hpjis, so I left them alone.  From what you're saying your printer 
*must* use hpcups.

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Regards,
Mick