On Sat 19 Apr 2014 at 22:37:47 +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
Brian wrote:
And your printer model is?
It's in an earlier post in this thread: HP Laserjet P2015DN. There
is a ppd in Current Debian stable package hpijs-ppds, but it doesn't
support 1200 dpi. See earlier post. More here;
Hi there
Brian wrote:
There is a Generic Postscript Printer PPD which I use with a 2200DN. It
does 1200x1200. I'm not sure the difference between that and 600x600 is
at all obvious.
I my experience the difference is vast when dithering grey tones.
Anyway, if you can't find a ppd which
On Sun 20 Apr 2014 at 15:04:42 +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
Brian wrote:
There is a Generic Postscript Printer PPD which I use with a 2200DN. It
does 1200x1200. I'm not sure the difference between that and 600x600 is
at all obvious.
I my experience the difference is vast when
On Saturday 19 April 2014 00:13:24 wobbly-hs wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 22:39:31 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 18 April 2014 18:56:55 wobbly-hs wrote:
Lisi Reisz asked:
..
Thanks. Have you said which printer? If so, I have missed it.
It is likely to be
HI there
wobbly-hs wrote:
hp1320n laser
hplip connection to:
HP LaserJet 1320 series Postscript (recommended) postscript driver
But shock / amazement!..
hpijs does work - I thought I'd tried it already but maybe I'd copied the
ppd or something, this time a clean ppd seems to work (but
On 2014-04-18, wobbly-hs wob...@happysheep.me.uk wrote:
But shock / amazement!..
hpijs does work - I thought I'd tried it already but maybe I'd copied the
ppd or something, this time a clean ppd seems to work (but only runs at 600
dpi
rather than 1200)
A known limitation, it seems.
Hi there
Curt wrote:
A known limitation, it seems.
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_1320
This site is slow and PPDs keep disappearing.
If you do find a PPD that works, put it on your website, so people can
find it using a web search.
(I wanted to view the discussion
On Sat 19 Apr 2014 at 17:14:41 +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
Curt wrote:
A known limitation, it seems.
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_1320
This site is slow and PPDs keep disappearing.
If you do find a PPD that works, put it on your website, so people
can find
Hi there
Brian wrote:
What is lacking in the range of PPDs offered by Debian that one has to
go searching in corners of the web to find one?
AFAIK Debian doesn't provide a PPD for my printer.
Debian used to, but that is a long time ago.
Vr.Gr,
Rob
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On Sat 19 Apr 2014 at 21:39:31 +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote:
Brian wrote:
What is lacking in the range of PPDs offered by Debian that one has to
go searching in corners of the web to find one?
AFAIK Debian doesn't provide a PPD for my printer.
Debian used to, but that is a long time
Hi there
Brian wrote:
And your printer model is?
It's in an earlier post in this thread: HP Laserjet P2015DN. There is a
ppd in Current Debian stable package hpijs-ppds, but it doesn't support
1200 dpi. See earlier post. More here;
http://www.sput.nl/software/hp2015dn.html#cups
On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 10:52 +0100, wobbly-hs wrote:
Bug#656640 shows a fix has been made but not moved downstream to
stable.
Debian isn't my favorite distro, I prefer another one that does follow
(software developers) upstream. However, a distro like Debian and the
distro I more often use, have
On Fri 18 Apr 2014 at 10:52:14 +0100, wobbly-hs wrote:
Can anyone clarify the policy for when upstream fixes completed in testing
come down to stable.
From
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases
Even stable is updated once in a while. Those updates are called
Point
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:26:55 +020, Ralf Mardorf wrote
Don't rely on the policy of a distro, DIY sometimes will fix issues
faster
My reason for using Debian stable is because I have spent too much time in the
past fixing things myself / getting help etc. I've used Fedora for many
years, then
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:41 PM, wobbly-hs wob...@happysheep.me.uk wrote:
If Debian stable can't provide a reliable desktop long term, then I appear
to have reached the end of the Linux line. What to do?
People who want more stability than Debian offers usually go to Red
Hat. Or at least,
On Friday 18 April 2014 12:41:25 wobbly-hs wrote:
I can invest time in set-up if I
can then leave things to keep working. But the tinkerers keep
breaking things! If Debian stable can't provide a reliable desktop
long term,
I find that Debian Stable does provide a reliable desktop long term.
On Fri 18 Apr 2014 at 12:41:25 +0100, wobbly-hs wrote:
If Debian stable can't provide a reliable desktop long term, then I appear
to have reached the end of the Linux line. What to do? Cross my fingers and
hope in the benevolence of Mr Shuttleworth's Ubuntu LTS to keep the upstream
from
On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 12:41 +0100, wobbly-hs wrote:
Or go fully proprietary and join the masses giving up a
bit of security and control?
Then you might get rid of the trouble you experience now, but you likely
will run into hundreds of other issues. I prefer a few issues for free
as in beer,
Thanks all for your taking the time to comment on my questions
Brian pointed to the new backport
1.9.63-1~bpo70+1: amd64
This looks very much like the same thing I'd produced as a
private backport which I installed:
python-cups_1.9.63-1~bpo70+1_amd64.deb
Lisi Reisz asked:
It would be
On Vi, 18 apr 14, 10:52:14, wobbly-hs wrote:
My question is seeking to understand the criteria on which a fix is moved down
to stable. I think it is likely if the problem were not that printing doesn't
work but that web servers don't work, it would be fixed in stable overnight.
So why is
On Friday 18 April 2014 18:56:55 wobbly-hs wrote:
Lisi Reisz asked:
It would be interesting to know what your current problem is. You
only vaguely mention that it is something to do with printing.
So to answer that, following a routine install of Wheezy xfce
edition, other programs were
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 22:39:31 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 18 April 2014 18:56:55 wobbly-hs wrote:
Lisi Reisz asked:
..
Thanks. Have you said which printer? If so, I have missed it. It is
likely to be relevant. I have absolutely no problems with my
Samsung,
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