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151102 Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found another way |
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> to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic and that works trouble-free. |
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> It's a driver for Laserjet printers, it won't work on deskjets AFAIK. |
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> The driver is foo2zjs: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ , wh uses Ghostscript. |
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> I looked and it looks like that won't help you. |
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Yes, they all seem to be for laser printers. I do very little printing, |
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but once or twice a year need to print something, |
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so my cheap little HP DJ 2510 is adequate. |
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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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So for everyday purposes, I can print anything by rebooting into Mint. |
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However, I'm not happy that there's a bug (or more) of some sort in Gentoo. |
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I'm not at all sure where it could be or how to report it. |
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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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Further comments mb useful to everyone. |
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PS thankyou to Dale, whose general experience is similar to my own. |
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