As for the A4 vs. Letter, hp-setup installs the printer using whatever defaults are in the PPD and/or are supplied by CUPS. HPLIP does not alter any settings during adding a printer. As you suggested previously, I may change this in the future.
On 4/1/07, Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dave White, thank you very much for your long report. > > Did you download my packages AFTER 2007-03-30 13:26:10 CEST? If you are > not sure, re-download and install them again, as I have replaced them by > new packages at that time. My new version contains a fix concerning > parallel printers, so it can be helpful on your problems. > > > printerbuginfo missing stderr complaint that "No packages found > matching libgnomeprint2.2-0." > > This is no problem. The script checks the presence and version of a > certain amount of packages. It perhaps simply lacks an update for a > recent change in Feisty. For our test this is not relevant, as it is not > affected by libgnomeprint2. > > > Step 2. HPLIP fails to start. Get bouncing icon for 3 minutes. Is there > a way to kill it? Rebooted. > > No HP FAX/Scan capability so skipped to step 3. > > Sorry, I did not say that test step 2 does not apply to Kubuntu. The > situation of missing Python Qt in Kubuntu does not exist. The fallback > which I wanted to trigger in this step is irrelevant for Kubuntu. So > ignore this problem. This is neither a bug in the HPLIP packaging nor a > regression in HPLIP 1.7.3, it is a bug in my testing scheme presented > here. > > > Test page has banding in graphic. > [...] > > CUPS recommended gutenprint. Set it to crop, printed test page. No > banding present!!! > > As the banding problem occurs only with HPLIP and not with Gutenprint > this seems to be a bug in the HPIJS driver. Did this problem already > occur before you updated to HPLIP 1.7.3? Does it persist if you > downgrade to 1.7.1 (instructions in my testing step 15). > > Don, Raghu, Aaron, can you check whether the HPIJS driver of HPLIP 1.7.3 > works correctly with the HP DeskJet 960C device class? > > > Bottom of bounding box (line below hp logo) is clipped, > > probably because it defaults to A4 paper. (Couldn't you use my timezone > to guess I'd want > > letter?) > > Check the paper size default setting in ~/.cups/lpoptions and in > /etc/cups/ppd/<your printer>.ppd. How is it set? > > Don, Raghu, Aaron, how do you set the default paper size when you create > a queue with hp-setup. I observed in older HPLIP versions that I always > got Letter and I need A4 as default in Europe. The best solution would > be to check /etc/papersize and/or the internationalization setting > (command "locale", "LC_..." environment variables instead of using a > static default setting. > > > Print control tab display is clipped, in middle of "The printer is > currently NOT SET AS DEFAULT", > approximately mid-"e" of "The". > > This is a purely cosmetic problem, see my answer to Johnny Levai in my > previous posting. > > > OpenOffice subdialog is a subset of controls offered by HPLIP. > > This is correct. OpenOffice.org only shows the printer-specific options > (defined in /etc/cups/ppd/<your printer>.ppd) and not the options > provided by CUPS (N-up, Brightness, Gamma, ...). This is a missing > feature of OpenOffice.org. File a feature request on the OpenOffice.org > web site. > > > Current toolbox settings do NOT appear in OpenOffice Print dialog, > even though OO started after > changes were made. Requested Landscape, 2 > sheets/page in toolbox. OO printed as 2 individual > portraits. > > OpenOffice.org seems to save printer options per-document. So if you > start OpenOffice with an existing document, you will not get you option > changes from the HP Toolbox. You should get them if you start > OpenOffice.org with a new document. If your setting are correctly saved > in ~/.cups/lpoptions but do not appear in OpenOffice.org, file a bug > against OpenOffice.org. > > > Step 8. With Landscape, 2 up, 2 thin borders, mirror print, text file > prints but text and right > > edge of box are in unprintable region on right side of page. [I was > expecting a "booklet" style > > printout, but that didn't happen.] > > At first make sure that the default paper size is set to "Letter" (Use > the KDE Printing Manager, the "Printers" tab of the CUPS web interface, > or "sudo lpadmin -p <your printer> -o PageSize=Letter" on the command > line). If the problem persists, unprintable margins in the PPD file are > not correct. > > Did you have the same problem with HPLIP 1.7.1? > > Don, Raghu, Aaron, can you check the unprintable margins for the HP > DeskJet 960 device class? > > > Step 11 - No HPLIP printer device, used HP960 parport. > > > Used HPLIP to print test page. It requested me to load plain paper even > though printer still had > > paper. > > HPLIP does not check whether there is actually paper in the printer. It > always tells you to insert paper. This was the case also in every older > HPLIP version which I know. So it is no regression. > > > HPLIP test page prints black and white low-res graphic, despite CUPS > indicationg RGB or CMYK > > color modes. > > Check the option settings inside the HP Toolbox. Or close the Toolbox, > remove ~/.cups/lpoptions and start the Toolbox again. > > > Banding and clipping w cdj970 driver, though now banding runs parallel > to each edge of color > > wheel. Right edge and bottom of bounding box missing. > > The "cdj970" driver is obsolete, do not use it. HPIJS and Gutenprint > should give much better results. > > > If I right click to bring up the HP960C printer menu in the KDE Printing > Manager, then click on > > Printer Tools, the flyout says "EPSON inkjet". > > This is a bug of the KDE Printing Manager. It does not adapt the > "Printer Tools" menu to the actually installed printer. > > > Step 13 - Don't know if these are new or old bugs. Didn't have this > recipe to follow previously. > > To determine whether you have found regressions, follow the instructions > of downgrading to HPLIP 1.7.1 in my step 15. > > > FYI - CUPS is detecting Canon and EPSON printers on the parallel port, > despite the fact that > > there's only the HP960C on the port. > > This is a bug of Gutenprint and not of HPLIP or CUPS. > > The HPLIP problems which you have found are > > - Banding on printed images > - Choice of default page size A4 or Letter > > Don, Raghu, Aaron, can you look into these? Thanks. > > -- > Feisty UVF ER: New HPLIP 1.7.3 release fixes lots of bugs > https://launchpad.net/bugs/98520 > -- Feisty UVF ER: New HPLIP 1.7.3 release fixes lots of bugs https://launchpad.net/bugs/98520 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
