I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built machine. 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. When I print a text file from Gvim or a ps file from LO, there are blank bands across the page, omitting lines or parts of letters.
I have managed to get Kwrite to print properly via file -> print -> options -> layout -> schema : when set to 'normal' 'KDE' 'Vim dark', everything comes out as it should (there are some amusing color effects, but it's all there). Alongside Gentoo, I installed Mint 17.2 (Xfce), which started printing properly via Gedit + LO after I set print quality to 'high' via the 'http://localhost:631' menu (I didn't go back to test Gvim there, but assume it would work too). Gedit has its own internal print-quality menu too. I have compared /etc/hp/hplip.conf in Gentoo vs Mint : the Gentoo version of Hplip is 3.14.10 , Mint has 3.15.2 ; the Gentoo version of Cups is 2.0 , Mint has 1.7 ; the Gentoo version of Hplip was built with 'foomatic-ppd-install=no', the Mint version with '...=yes'. I can contrive to print text + ps files easily by copying them to an appropriate partition & rebooting into Mint, but Gentoo is supposed to make these things easier, not more difficult. Finally, I've never got the print icon in Gvim to work : I use the 'prtdialog' plug-in, which prints, but only badly as above. Can anyone offer advice or suggestions ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
