LOL - I was in the HP website and finally found out for myself what the LIP was for! You can understand why I ask to keep things simple for me . I have found since these discussions began I have more options for printing than I previously had thought. The tabs themselves do indeed offer the dpi option which I thought I did not have, amongst other options. BUT the options sort of disappear after printing or turning off the puter, so I'm wondering if one can make the chosen options stay put, until one wants to change them in order to print other things. I value these communications. Thanks very much! In a message dated 12/4/2008 3:48:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aaron, here I think HPLIP (Mary, HPLIP is HP's driver package for their printers and multi-function devices) should get more user-friendly. As HPLIP PPDs are noe generated by CUPS DDK and not by Foomatic any more, one could introduce an "Installable Options" group in which the administrator can tell which hardware configuration of the given printer is actually used, like we know already from the PostScript models. UIConstraints can hide or gray (depends on the application's UI) extra trays or duplex settings if appropriate accessories are not installed. For LIDIL printers (and generally printers where the driver must know about the actually installed cartridges) the group can in addition contain also an "InkSet" option, in which the user configures which cartridges he has actually installed. An UI constraint will then exclude the "Quality" settings which are not suitable for the given ink set. This would break the PrintoutMode option, as the "Quality" settings behind of some of its choices could be disqualified by the given ink set. And we must conserve the PrintoutMode option, as in the Common Printing Dialog (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/CommonPrintingDialog) it will translate into the Quick Preset buttons. So we do not let the PrintoutMode option be a Foomatic composite option any more. We let Quality, PrintoutMode, and InkSet all inject command line fragments into the GhostScript/HPIJS command line. If Quality is not set to "FromPrintoutMode" HPIJS will use the Quality setting (and perhaps use the closest suitable or exit with an error if it conflicts with InkSet). If Quality is set to "FromPrintoutMode" HPIJS will take the PrintoutMode setting and look up in an internal table which Quality it has to use dependent on the given InkSet and PrintoutMode. This way the default setting of PrintoutMode is always "Normal" and of Quality always "FromPrintoutMode". Modern printer setup tools automatically ask the user for setting the "Installable Options" and so the user gets asked which cartridges he has. So InkSet gets set correctly and the printer makes always best use of the cartridges. And if the suer switches to "Draft", "High", or "Photo" HPIJS uses the Quality setting which makes best use of the cartridges in these modes. Aaron (or anyone else there at HP), what do you think? -- "Print black" does not use black ink cartridge https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235399 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in HP Linux Imaging and Printing: New Status in “hplip” source package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org If I want to save money and print black text with black ink, I have to select the "greyscale" printout mode. Of course, when I do that, my images also come out black & white. There are evidently workarounds, or I can run the pages through twice and hope the alignment is perfect, but I don't think that should be necessary. I'm running Kubuntu Hardy (8.04) with linux kernel 2.6.24-17-generic. The version of OpenOffice.org is 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6. My printer is an HP Officejet 5610 All-in-One, which is a USB printer. I thank you in advance for everything you do. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue May 27 22:04:32 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr /bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686 **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010) -- "Print black" does not use black ink cartridge https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235399 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
