OK, thank you very much. With this test result we can solve your
problem. It shows that the Postscript and pxlmono drivers print the
first printout after turning on the printer well, but leave the printer
in a bad state, so that most of the subsequent printouts come out as
garbage. Only the hpijs-pcl5e driver is reliable on your printer. After
the printout the printer is left in a correct state and so another
printout can be done and comes out correctly. This means that to have
your printer reliably working you have to use the hpijs-pcl5e driver.
Should you even then get a bad printout later, turn off and turn on the
printer again and you will get good printouts again (probably with the
hpijs-pcl5e driver you will not have to do this).
The problem with the Postscript and pxlmono drivers can be a firmware
bug. So please check on the manufacturer's web site whether there is a
firmware update for your printer.
For us this means that as a fix for this bug we will recommend the
hpijs-pcl5e driver for this printer, so that the printer will just work
for users who set it up under Ubuntu.
Simply keep the hpijs-pcl5e driver selected for your print queue and
enjoy Ubuntu.
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Triaged
** Package changed: cups (Ubuntu) => foomatic-db (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: foomatic-db (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: foomatic-db (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-11.10
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My laser printer prints sheets of random chars
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