On Thursday 05 Nov 2015 06:21:16 Philip Webb wrote:
> 151103 Philip Webb wrote:
> > The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality,
> > but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge).
> > Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality' or 'best'.
> >
> > In Mint, when that is set via the 631 menu, printing works correctly :
> > I can print text files via Gvim (icon or :ha ) & Gedit, .odt via LO
> > & PDF via Evince ; Gedit & Evince have their own quality settings.
> >
> > In Gentoo, the 631 setting has no effect, so all printing is draft.
> > Only Kwrite has its own quality setting, which does work properly for
> > text.
>
> I've found the source of the problem.
> It's necessary to choose the 'hpcups' driver, not the 'hpijs' driver,
> when setting up the printer via the 631 menu.
> Once that's done, Gvim Okular LO all print 'best' quality correctly.
>
> There is also a quality setting hidden away in the LO menus :
> tools -> options -> LO -> print : set 'high' = 300 dpi.
>
> My route to the solution was via trying the 'gutenprint' pkg.
> It doesn't offer a driver for an HP DJ 2510 , only 2500 or 2540,
> but that led me to look thro' the other drivers in the 631 menu
> & one of them was 'hpcups'.
>
> I'm surprised -- well, am I really ? -- that there's no mention of all this
> in any of the dox, wikis, Forum discussions etc etc I've scoured.
> However as usual, all problems with Gentoo are 1 level deep :
> find where it is & the solution falls into place promptly (smile).
Ahh! Yes, I forgot about this. Sorry :-)
hpcups is the newer driver for HP printers. On a new box I set up hpcups and
it worked with my old HP printer, without hpjis, but older boxen still print
fine with hpjis, so I left them alone. From what you're saying your printer
*must* use hpcups.
--
Regards,
Mick
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
