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On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:25:51PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote: |
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> from Walt: |
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> > On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: |
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> > > Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy |
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> > > anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then |
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> > > I'd need toner. |
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> > > I do intend to try with Linux, and also try the MS-Windows drivers on |
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> > > FreeBSD with wine. |
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> > I've found that the postscript-printer-definition (ppd) files included |
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> > in net-print/gutenprint work much better for me than the ones included |
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> > in net-print/hplip, which is published by HP. |
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Thanks for the tip, I'll try that, too for by Laserjet 1000. I used to |
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use foo2zjs, which got masked at some point. I'm annoyed by hplip's tray |
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area program. |
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> > I've also heard other people grumble about the quality of HP printer |
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> > drivers not being as good as HP printers, but that's just hearsay :) |
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> I see I don't have guenprint installed, maybe I ought to. |
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> Bigger problem may be that HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP requires a proprietary plugin download. |
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That plugin download is what was broken for me. If you use python 3 in |
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your system, then the download will silently fail because the script is |
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written in python 2, but its shebang says only "python". |
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