This sounds a bit like what I get when I use the CUPS "HP LaserJet 4050,
Foomatic + stp-4.0 (GIMP-Print)" driver for my HP LaserJet 4050. I've had
very little success with any of the CUPS 4050 drivers and I'm using "Generic
Postscript" now.
M.
On Friday 05 January 2001 17:56, you wrote:
> On Friday 05 January 2001 10:03 am, you wrote:
> > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Now that I've FINALLLY got printing working in Mdk 7.2 via lpr what
> > > prints from Kmail and Konqueror is awful! things print fine frpom
> > > Netscape, and Star Office. What's up with that?
> >
> > could you define 'is awful'? Do you get raw postscript? stair-steps?
> > Gibberish? Raw heaps of steaming garbage? ;-)
> >
> > rc
>
> Sorry about that Rusty,
>
> Actually what I'm getting looks a lot like the ink tanks are running dry.
> But really they're not. There's plently of ink in them. In Kmail the email
> addresses and URL's are a pastel blue in color, these don't print at all.
> And in spots where it should be printing black colored text it prints a
> very pale blue. You can barely see it. Red prints ok. I've got colors
> turned on in Kmail.
>
> When I print something from Konqueror the color is waty off. Yellow is
> almost white...what should be green isn't and some colors don't print at
> all.
>
> I'm inclined to assume that it's the drivers or the lack of printer support
> for manner in which I'm telling the machine to print. But I've also noticed
> that even then I tell the program to print in greyscale it still prints in
> color, or at least it tries to.
--
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
