Once, you can find the printtool under the contribs, and second, I
cannot imagine why you get bad printing quality with your HP LaserJet
6L. All drivers which were available for LPD in 7.1 are also available
for CUPS under 7.2. And under CUPS you can even do a lot of fine-tuning
to raise the printing quality.
The drivers available for your printer are
HP LaserJet 6 series, CUPS+GIMP-Print
HP LaserJet 6, Foomatic + ljet4
HP LaserJet 6, Foomatic + stp-4.0 (GIMP-Print)
HP LaserJet 6L, Foomatic + ljet4
The "Foomatic + ljet4" entries are exactly the same driver as in
Mandrake 7.1. They should give exactly the same quality. Make sure that
you set the default options correctly to get a high quality. Either got
to http://localhost:631/printers/, click the "Configure Printer" button
at the entry of your HP LaserJet 6L or start "kups" and click with the
right button on your printer in the printer list of the main window. In
the pop-up menu choose "Configure Printer". Now you can put the
resolution to 600x600 dpi, try different dithering methods, and so on.
You can even set up options for every individual printout ("Options" in
"xpp", "Properties" in "qtcups".
Till
P. S.: I have a LaserJet 1100 here and it works perfectly with CUPS.
Nora Etukudo wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> Since I couldn't get good print quality with Cups and HP LaserJet 6L, I
> had to get rid of Cups too, today.
>
> I've removed
>
> cups-1.1.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
> cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk.i586.rpm
>
> and then installed
>
> control-panel-3.11-17mdk.i586.rpm
> lpr-0.50-7mdk.i586.rpm
> rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm
> printtool-3.44-3mdk.noarch.rpm
>
> The 'printtool' rpm is stolen from Mandrake 7.1
> Now my printing is ok and in good quality as before on Mandrake 6.1.
>
> Liebe Gr��e, Nora.
