Re: [Hplip-help] Terrible output with hplip and Photosmart 3210

[Eric T. <eti...@al...>]

On 1/2/07 6:17 PM, "Aaron" <ke...@gm...> wrote:

> if you need to change the paper type you can do this from the cups interface:
> 
> http://localhost:631

Actually, you can't select the paper type.

You can only select the Printout Mode, which selects the "quality" but in
(almost) all cases says "(auto-detect paper)".  If you set the Printout Mode
to "Photo" then it will expect photo paper.

The other setting is "Resolution, Quality, Ink Type, Media Type" which has a
bunch of settings, but the choices that mention paper indicate photo paper.

I haven't checked all possible permutations, but I'm pretty sure that the
results will be equivalently crappy.

> 
> If you are printing on plain paper and have plain paper selected (as
> an example) and the quality is still poor please scan the result and
> post the output.

I have done this with a PDF I created a while ago to show HP why the Mac
drivers are broken (and which they ignored).  Using plain paper, and with
the default settings, I have printed using the HP Windows XP drivers and the
HPLIP drivers (1.6.12 on Ubuntu) and scanned the results.  The scans and the
original PDF are attached.  You will note that the HPLIP version shows a lot
of bleeding around the black characters and the black border (and the
position and size of the image is larger on the HPLIP version too, but
that's harder to see).

So there you go.  BTW, the Mac drivers produce equally crappy output.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> On 1/2/07, Eric Tiffany <eti...@al...> wrote:
>> Printing black text on a color background produces terrible results on my
>> Photosmart 3210 printed using hplip 1.6.12 on Ubuntu 6.10.  For example,
>> just go to
>> 
>> http://hplip.sourceforge.net/mailing_lists.html
>> 
>> and print the first page (making sure to set your browser print settings to
>> print background colors).
>> 
>> You will see that the black text bleeds into the blue background of the menu
>> on the left side of the page.
>> 
>> This page prints correctly on Windows XP.  It also prints ok (but not
>> perfectly) on Mac OS X but only if you set up your print settings to pretend
>> that you have inkjet paper.
>> 
>> Evidently, the HPLIP and Mac OS drivers for this 3200 series printer don't
>> autodetect the type of paper.  Since there is no way to set the paper type
>> on the HPLIP driver for this printer, the output is lousy.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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