Re: HP Printer and Pre-Rendering
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:23:13AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> My girlfriend uses Debian (on my recommendation, though I use
> Fedora Core), and we've hit a little snag. It turns out that
> for some of the applications, her HP printer prints raw PostScript.
> She is using HPIJS as the driver. On my machine, there is no
> problem, but I have "Pre-Render" selected. Both of us use CUPS,
> and GNOME, but the GNOME on Debian is sufficiently different
> from the one I use, that I am having problems figuring out
> how to get her printer to print without seeing raw PostScript.
> The printer itself, of course, only understands straight ASCII,
> IBM ASCII, and PCL (Printer Control Language) used by HP printers.
>
> Note that this only happens with some applications, not all.
> Which is also confusing. She was trying to crop some photos
> using the GNOME image editing tool, and got raw PostScript.
> OTOH, Mozilla has no problem printing images, though it cannot
> crop them, of course.
>
> Would someone please give us a little help with this?
There is a debian-printing mailing list.
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Chris.
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