Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:33:38 +0200 > Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > > Hello Merciadri, > > >> That is a really strange problem. Have you tried your printer on >> another computer? (Basic question, I know, but we sometimes forget.) >> > > Unfortunately, that's not possible, as I don't have access to another > computer to try it on. > > >> connected to the computer? I have no experience with laser printers. >> > > Via USB, as hplip doesn't recognise parallel printers [at least from > Debian repos](0). Barry's is the laser printer, mine's an inkjet. > > [0] It is possible to use parallel printers with hplip but, by default, > the ability is off at compile time. I've never pursued the issue the > the Debian maintainer but guess he doesn't enable the feature. > > I also want to go direct to HP to use hplip since their way uses a > very unDebian like install method. On top of that, I already install > four packages manually, and don't wish to make that five. > > Finally, for me, this is a minor 'nit' as I don't do a great deal of > printing. I can see though, it would be costly for users that make a > lot of use of their printer(s). > > Well, that keeps being strange to my eyes. I have never seen such problems. I have seen page scaling, rotating, etc., but never this problem. I hope somebody's going to find an answer to your problem. Happy to see that you do not print a lot; if this was happening to me, I would have teared out! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. You can't kill two birds with one stone.
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