Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: pnm2ppa
Several people have reported that their HP DeskJet 710C, 712C, 720C,
722C, 820C or 1000C did not work in Ubuntu.
I searched for the cause for this problem by debugging foomatic-rip and
looking at the command line that is generated:
renderer command: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -r600 -sDEVICE=ppmraw
-sOutputFile=- - | pnm2ppa -v 1000 -B 2 -t 10 -b 150 -l 10 -r 10 -x 160 -y 50
-i - -o -
We see that the model is selected with v switch depending on the PPD we
used, in this case -v 1000 (meaning HP DeskJet 1000C).
pnm2ppa is a filter converting pnm images to ppa data for a specific
printer model.
I did some tests with pnm2ppa filter using a pnm image and found what
the problem is, see table and explanation below.
Command that I used to test:
$ pnm2ppa -v 1000 -B 2 -t 10 -b 150 -l 10 -r 10 -x 160 -y 50 -i
~/Desktop/test.pnm -o ~/Desktop/test-v1000.ppa
/etc/pnm2ppa.conf: version 0 | version 710,712,720,722,820,1000 | version
<unknown>
=======================================
no -v | empty ppa file | ppa output for 7xx*, 820 or 1000 | no ppa file
-v 710,712,720,722,820,1000 | ppa output for 7xx*, 820 or 1000 | no ppa file
* The generated ppa output for 710, 712, 720 and 722 is identical
The problem is that the Ubuntu package pnm2ppa has a default
configuration /etc/pnm2ppa.conf that contains a blanc version line
(version <unknown> in the table). This results in no ppa output being
generated so nothing is printed. Therefore the default /etc/pnm2ppa.conf
should be altered to contain version 0 or version <modelnumber>,
enabling the above mentioned printer models to work out of the box,
without initial user configuration, with the foomatic PPDs. The default
upstream pnm2ppa.conf contains a version 0 line. Please change this so
these printers work out of the box, which is the expected behaviour.
I'm going to mark the different bugs reported for this problem as
duplicates of this one.
** Affects: pnm2ppa (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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HP DeskJet 7xxC, 820C or 1000C does not work out of the box
https://launchpad.net/bugs/52814
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