Re: printing/printers
Hi Erik:
updating the driver, according to your indications, led to much improved
printing with openoffice.
However i am still unable to print pdf documents on HP-Deskjet_5740-hijs.ppd.
kpdf encounters the problem that my pdf documents (pdf of articles from
scientific literature) are not standard, ie they lack an index. Besides this,
for the few pages shown, i get the message:
The MIME type application/postscript is not supported as input of the filter
chain (this may happen with non-CUPS spoolers when performing page selection
on a non-PostScript file). Do you want KDE to convert the file to a supported
format?
None of the format presented is accepted.
/usr/log/cups/error_log:
I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Listening to 7f000001:631
I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Loaded configuration
file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Full reload is required.
I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:12 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/var/lib/cups/ppds.dat", 14
PPDs...
I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:12 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:13 +0200] Full reload complete.
I [09/Apr/2006:21:56:57 +0200] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Listening to 7f000001:631
I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Loaded configuration
file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Full reload is required.
I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:53 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/var/lib/cups/ppds.dat", 14
PPDs...
I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:53 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:53 +0200] Full reload complete.
The same MIME problems are presented on trying to print jpg files with kview.
The same jpg file prints correctly with openoffice impress.
With Adobe Reader 7, the windows "printing to HP..." appears and all pages
appear in sequence, but printing does not occur and nothing is written on the
error_log for this apparent segmentation error. However, Adobe can print the
same pdf file by selecting "custom" printer, that is through /usr/bin/lp.
This mode allows selecting only the page format and takes a lot of ink. (only
ghostscript is installed on my computer, while lpr and filters (magicfilter
or apsfilter) are not. I am familiar with LPRng with mainframes but i did not
try to print with BSD modes on the pc.
i hope that a clarification is useful to others as well, unless i am the sole
to be embarassed with such problems.
best regards
francesco pietra
On Saturday 08 April 2006 17:10, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:12:19AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > Unable to get HP Deskjet 5740 printing economically through
> > CUPS/HPLIP/usb. The settings windows does not allow much and the printer
> > uses a lot of ink. Therefore, is any other printer branch fully supported
> > on debian etch? Printers are cheap while cartridges are expensive, so
> > that i'll not hesitate to through the printer away. I am even inclined to
> > buy a scsi printer should any be available in Europe. i am always
> > uncomfortable with usb.
>
> USB works fine, we've been running a HP LJ 2200 through USB for over
> two years without any problem whatsoever.
>
> > I can not rule out to miss some important settings because i use the
> > specific driver for openoffice and all editors, while both kpdf and adobe
> > reader 7 do not accept that (and nothing is being written on error log in
> > this case) and i have to set "custom printer" to get the printer working.
>
> Get the appropriate PPD for your printer from linuxprinting.org, put it
> in /usr/share/cups/model, restart cups and reconfigure the printer
> using the PPD you just uploaded. Doing so for a HP LJ 1320 enabled much
> more settings for it. Here's your PPD and hints&tips:
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_5740
>
>
> Erik
>
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