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151103 Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 03 Nov 2015 18:33:58 Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality, |
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>> but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge). |
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>> Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality' or 'best'. |
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>> In Mint, when that is set via the 631 menu, printing works correctly : |
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>> I can print text files via Gvim (icon or :ha ) & Gedit, .odt via LO |
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>> & PDF via Evince ; Gedit & Evince have their own quality settings. |
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>> In Gentoo, the 631 setting has no effect, so all printing is draft. |
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>> Only Kwrite has its own quality setting, which does work properly for text. |
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>> In addition, the icon doesn't work in Gvim, tho' :ha does. |
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>> It cb caused by the difference in desktops, Xfce on Mint, Fluxbox on Gentoo |
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>> : perhaps the bigger desktop managers do the job themselves, |
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>> whereas something else needs fixing with the lightweight Fluxbox. |
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> Is your gentoo user a member of lp & lpadmin group? |
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'lpadmin' yes ; 'lp' no, but 'lp' is a member : I've added my userid. |
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On the face of it, the latter shouldn't make a difference, but I can test. |
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