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[hpoj-devel] Printing problems with hpoj from Staroffice

[Edwin v. O. <edw...@se...>]

Hi All,

I've successfully installed the drivers for my G55 on a Mandrake 7.2 syst=
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Printing works fine from any program except for StarOffice 5.2.=20
I have tried to change some settings in spadmin, but no luck yet. Before =
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installed the hpoj drivers, I was using the standard drivers from cups an=
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that worked fine, although the printing quality was a lot less.

When I print from StarOffice I only get blank page.

Any thoughts on this?

Edwin

PS:
Trying to scan from SO makes the hd led do overtime and SO quits after a=20
while saying that it doesn't have enough memory (128 Mb), but I don't car=
e,=20
since I only want to scan from the Gimp anyway.

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Edwin van Opstal
S.E. Technology

Re: [hpoj-devel] Printing problems with hpoj from Staroffice

[Allen B. <ba...@lo...>]

FWIW, the following combination works for me:

USB connected G85
RedHat 6.2 + stock kernel 2.4.2 (uses LPD)
HP developed 900C driver from hpinkjet.sourceforge.com
Generic postscript driver selected in StarOffice

You might try printing to a file and then lpr'ing it directly or looking
at it with Ghostscript just to be sure SO isn't generating bad
postscript, which I find it sometimes does.

With respect to scanning in SO: I tried that just now (for the first
time). The sound of your harddisk is SO swapping everything else out of
memory. A 600DPI color scan caused SO to blow up to about 400Mb briefly.
I did notice that you have to set the DPI *last* in the 'Select
Source...' dialog since making any changes to the other options resets
it to 600DPI. A 300DPI scan wasn't too painful, but SO is now 244Mb.

Allen

Edwin van Opstal wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've successfully installed the drivers for my G55 on a Mandrake 7.2 system.
> Printing works fine from any program except for StarOffice 5.2.
> I have tried to change some settings in spadmin, but no luck yet. Before I
> installed the hpoj drivers, I was using the standard drivers from cups and
> that worked fine, although the printing quality was a lot less.
> 
> When I print from StarOffice I only get blank page.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?
> 
> Edwin
> 
> PS:
> Trying to scan from SO makes the hd led do overtime and SO quits after a
> while saying that it doesn't have enough memory (128 Mb), but I don't care,
> since I only want to scan from the Gimp anyway.

Re: [hpoj-devel] Printing problems with hpoj from Staroffice

[Edwin v. O. <edw...@se...>]

On Thursday 29 March 2001 13:46, you wrote:
> You might try printing to a file and then lpr'ing it directly or lookin=
g
> at it with Ghostscript just to be sure SO isn't generating bad
> postscript, which I find it sometimes does.

The file from SO looks fine in Ghostview, but printing it from GV or dire=
ctly=20
with lpr or even by dragging the file to the printer icon all give the sa=
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results as printing directly from SO: pages with nothing or sometimes a f=
ew=20
small black blocks.

Printing other files with lpr or dragging them to the printer icon works =
fine.

Printing directly from spadmin (test page) also only gives a blank page.

in spadmin the "generic printer" is set:
Connect gives options:
-default_queue=3Dlp
-fax_queue=3D(FAX)
-lp=3Dlp -d lp
Selecting the first or third both give the same result.

While typing this message I am playing with the settings and changed the=20
postscript level from 2 (which worked before) to 1 and this works! Both t=
he=20
printer test and printing straight from SO are now OK.

Why must I suddenly change from ps 2 to 1?

Regards,
Edwin

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Edwin van Opstal
S.E. Technology