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On 11/01/2015 04:08 PM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built machine. |
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> 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. |
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> When I print a text file from Gvim or a ps file from LO, |
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> there are blank bands across the page, omitting lines or parts of letters. |
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> I have managed to get Kwrite to print properly |
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> via file -> print -> options -> layout -> schema : |
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> when set to 'normal' 'KDE' 'Vim dark', everything comes out as it should |
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> (there are some amusing color effects, but it's all there). |
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> Alongside Gentoo, I installed Mint 17.2 (Xfce), |
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> which started printing properly via Gedit + LO |
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> after I set print quality to 'high' via the 'http://localhost:631' menu |
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> (I didn't go back to test Gvim there, but assume it would work too). |
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> Gedit has its own internal print-quality menu too. |
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> I have compared /etc/hp/hplip.conf in Gentoo vs Mint : |
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> the Gentoo version of Hplip is 3.14.10 , Mint has 3.15.2 ; |
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> the Gentoo version of Cups is 2.0 , Mint has 1.7 ; |
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> the Gentoo version of Hplip was built with 'foomatic-ppd-install=no', |
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> the Mint version with '...=yes'. |
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> I can contrive to print text + ps files easily |
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> by copying them to an appropriate partition & rebooting into Mint, |
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> but Gentoo is supposed to make these things easier, not more difficult. |
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> Finally, I've never got the print icon in Gvim to work : |
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> I use the 'prtdialog' plug-in, which prints, but only badly as above. |
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> Can anyone offer advice or suggestions ? |
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Have you tried with foomatic-ppd-install on Gentoo? It's the |
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`static-ppds` USE flag, which may also need the `hpijs` USE flag. |
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I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found out there |
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was another way to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic, and that works |
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trouble free. Most of the problems was with hplip's installer, it just |
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refused to work. It would say it was successful, but it never installed |
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anything. |
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Dan |