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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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I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping |
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at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest |
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time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete |
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and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, |
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period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the |
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delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked like |
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a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. |
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ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try |
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that. |
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Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went in |
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as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at |
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least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, |
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and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, |
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currently out of ink, again. |
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I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI |
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to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems |
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to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer |
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hooked up then you may have to select something. |
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None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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