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Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

I found that Mandrake offers an rpm of drivers for CUPS that works rather well on Debian too.
The quality of the drivers varies from printer to printer. An HP 8000 was supported very well, while a Lexmark Rn+ showed poor results.
I went back to lprng and magicfilter, but I generally only print to one printer and it's postscript capable.
--On Thursday, May 17, 2001 4:27 PM -0400 Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> wrote: 



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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