Before you 'crap and go blind', take Till's advice and check the
updates. I had exactly the problems you were having (I think the
'cdj880' driver was broken in the standard 7.2 CUPS), but everything
worked out on my HP DJ832C after downloading/installing the updates off
Till's page. Now getting decent color and 600 dpi.....beats crapping in
the dark!!!
Tom
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> <rant-on>
> I just had an epiphany. CUPS PRINTING SUCKS!!@#Q#$%#!#@!
>
> I liked the printer support that I had back in Mdk 7.1. It was simple, direct,
> to the point, and...IT FRIGGIN WORKED WITHOUT HAVING TO SACRIFICE SMALL
> BARNYARD ANIMALS TO THE GODS OF MORONITY IN ORDER TO GET IT TO WORK.
>
> Why was something that was straightforward and NOT BROKEN changed so much that
> it's now NOT A USABLE OPTION? I just don't get it! I want to be able to print
> from all the applicartions that I could print from before with the same printer
> that I used before and I want to do all this some time this stinkin century. I
> REALLY don't think that's too much to expect.
>
> I'm not ungrateful to those who are clearly working very hard on this Linux
> distribution. You all are doing a fantastic job. But DAMNIT! when something is
> working LEAVE IT ALONE, will ya?
> </rant-off>
>
> That being said I would like to express my disappointment with the printer
> support in this distribution. When you can get it to work it absolutely will
> not work correctly. The damn printer params are METRIC for God's sake. For
> those of us that DO NOT live, breath and die by the metric system apparently
> are unable to use this...this...Ah hell...I don't know what you'd call it, but
> it's unusable where as before my Canon hummed right along and didn't have a
> care in the world.
>
> At this point I'm not sure whether I want to crap or go blind I'm so frustrated
> and sick and tired of trying everything I've learned over the past 7 years to
> convince, coax and/or otherwise plead with this OS that it's perfectly ok to
> print to the printer and to do it in a LEGABLE manner.
>
> That's the other thing that REALLY got my shorts in a knot. When it does print
> the job is printed in a 5x8 square in the upper left corner of a 8.25x11 inch
> peice of paper. It doesn't matter what "I", the user tells it to do it does
> that and only that. And yes, I've used the Cups configure do-dad that shipped
> with this fine distribution, AND every other printer configuration utility that
> was supplied with the distribution and STILL it's printing in the same manner.
>
> Things that are sent from apps such as Star Office go to the queue and then
> vanish without a trace! Now THATS a cool, or should that be a cruel trick!
>
> With all this agrivation I'm serisouly considering going back to 7.1 not matter
> how good Mdk7.2 looks and feels. My god! if I can't do the whole job then what
> I DO get done on this machine isn't the least bit of good to me unless I can
> complete the job. AND PART OF THAT IS BEING ABLE TO GET IT TO THE PRINTER.
>
> We're never going to take the world, nor even a decent peice of the market with
> stuff like this being common place. That's just the truth of it.
>
> Mark
