Re: HP PSC 1315 printer and hplip/hpcups printer cartridge mode issue

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:29:45 +0000, Harishankar wrote:

> I'm using HPLIP /CUPS with the hpcups driver to print using my hp psc
> 1315 printer.
> 
> Has anybody had the issue that during a print job it is impossible to
> ask the printer to use both the B&W and colour cartridge at the same
> time? I mean, if you select Normal Color it prints even black text using
> the colour cartridge (giving a non-sharp brownish grey effect) and when
> I select Normal Greyscale it is impossible to print in colour?

(...)

I have that options for my HP colour laserjet printer (using a PPD file, 
CUPS PS driver, not HPLIP):

***
Text Neutral Grays: 4 colour / [x] black only
Graphics Neutral Grays: 4 colour / [x] black only		
Photographs Neutral Grays: [x] 4 colour / black only	
***

Those options are pretty close to its counterpart windows driver and can 
be changed at real time for each print.

> I had the same problem using HPIJS drivers as well but the HPCUPS
> haven't solved the problem either?
> 
> Has anybody ever successfully printed a multi-coloured document with
> both the B&W and colour cartridge used where black is printed using the
> B&W cartridge and other colours printed using the colour cartridge like
> in Windows?
> 
> This seems closely related to this bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+sour ... bug/235399
> 
> Seems nobody at HP have resolved the issue related to Linux printing or
> am I doing something wrong?

Have you tried by downloading the latest PPD file for your printer 
("hpcups 3.10.6.15" or "hpijs 3.10.6.15") and adding a new printer 
instance with CUPS in the old fashioned way (I mean, without using HPLIP, 
just the provided PPD file)? :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón