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Aaron J Albright wrote: > Bill, > > Sorry you had that experience with HP support. > > I'll track down a DJ5440 and do some quick testing with it. I should > have some information for you sometime this afternoon. > > Aaron > > Bill Gribble wrote: >> 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 > > > 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 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
