Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)
I wrote:
> I've been using a combination of magicfilter and lpr (and now
> lprng), for a long time to print to inkjet printers. Today I
> tried a new HP photosmart P1000 printer at work and searched for
> the best way to make it work.
>
> Using magicfilter from testing/unstable, I pick the dj550c filter
> but it appears to use 300 dpi.
>
> A quick google search yields an entry at www.linuxprinting.org
>
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=131424
>
> They say to use the cdj550 ghostscript driver at 600x600.
> Selecting the cdj550 links brings us to a configuration tools
> with options for PDQ-O-Matic, CUPS-O-Matic, LPD-O-Matic.
>
> I suppose this means the Debian-compatible method of using this
> is to install cupsomatic-ppd, cupsys and cupsys-client? This
> wants to remove lprng and I'll have to learn everything. Is it
> worth it?
I thought I'd check it out. Man, my skill level must be much
lower than what is expected for these packages...
- I installed cupsomatic-ppd, cupsys and cupsys-client. It
looked like installing my own ppd file wasn't required because
it was already in /usr/share/cups/model/
- I searched for how to setup the printer:
/README.Debian.gz says:
After installation, CUPS is pretty close to being ready to go. The
last step is to add administrative access; the "lpadmin" group has
been created and granted administrative rights to CUPS. You may need
to add users to this group in order to add printers, modify settings,
etc.
Well, that doesn't tell me what to do.
- I looked up http://localhost/doc/cupsys but got only broken
links.
- cd /usr/doc/cupsys/ and find documentation.html and click on
sam.html
It tells me I can setup a printer via http://localhost:631/admin
Now I know what to do! (But it wasn't obvious!)
So I configured it and ran a test page. Works. I then printed a
colour graph I had just printed using lprng+magicfilter, and the
results are darker and muddier. :-(
Peter
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