On 03/11/2015 18:05, Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 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 ? >> > > > I don't know if this will help or not but since you seem to be grasping > at straws, grab this one and hold on for dear life. For the longest > time, every time hplip, cups and friends were updated, I had to delete > and readd my printer. If I didn't, printing was not going to happen, > period. I might also add, I'd restart cups just to be sure, after the > delete and again after the readd. Once I did that, printing worked like > a charm. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ink lasted longer too. > ROFL Just kidding but . . . . If nothing else works, may want to try > that. > > Oh, the last time I did the setup, I ignored cups completely. I went in > as root and set up the printer using the hplip command. That was at > least a couple years ago. Since then, whenever I get ready to print, > and replace the dried out cartridges, it just works. I have a D4260, > currently out of ink, again. > > I think the actual command is hp-setup. I use KDE and that opens a GUI > to do the set up. Generally, it is just clicking next. It just seems > to figure out the rest itself, unless you have more than one printer > hooked up then you may have to select something. > > None of this may help but maybe one will. May be worth a shot. ;-)
That's my experience too. I print very little by for ages now everytime a change was made to a printer or cups (even teeny minor ones), I'd delete and re-add all printers plus restart cups. Why does cups behave like this? Buggered if I know. I have an unexpressable opinion based on a certain fruity vendor who seems better at suing Samsung than actually writing code.... -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
