I don't know if this is a printer hardware problem or a driver problem, but HP support basically gave me the finger once I told them I was running Linux, so this mailing list is my last resort.
On black text printed not in a single-pen mode, I am seeing a shadow effect. What I mean by shadow effect is that I see a lighter gray version of the black text offset a few tenths of a millimeter from the solid black text, but not always in the same direction (on some text lines the offset is to the right, on some lines to the left). I'm assuming this is a problem of alignment between black and color heads. However, running the alignment process doesn't help; the post-alignment printout page shows a clearly-visible magenta inner square in the 4th from the top test block, and a less clearly visible black inner box in the 5th from the top. I have tried removing and reinserting the cartridges, and replaced the black one, to no avail. The effect does show up on the hp-testpage test pattern, but not on the "10-tap" test page the printer does with the power-cancel button combination. Also, if I print a monospace text file via enscript or lp and the file has vertical columns of "|" characters (in psql query output, for example) the "|" are not exactly aligned straight... they zigzag a little as they march down the page, as if the bidirectional printing isn't working quite right. All this is with the Debian unstable packaging of CUPS 1.2.1-3 and hplip 0.9.11-2. Any thoughts? Thanks, Bill Gribble Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
