Re: [SOLVED... sort of] Wheezy printing problem: 2 identical (?) machines and 1 does not print PDFs
On 2012-05-27, Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl> wrote:
><OPTION VALUE="drv:///hpijs.drv/hp-laserjet_2200_series-hpijs.ppd" >HP LaserJet 2200 Series hpijs, 3.12.2 (en)
><OPTION VALUE="drv:///hpcups.drv/hp-laserjet_2200_series.ppd" >HP LaserJet 2200 Series, hpcups 3.12.2 (en)
>
> I do not know the difference between the two, other than the empirical
> proof that the first entry does not work and the second does.
You have a laser printer, right? The HP 2200 DTN is laser, isn't it?
hpijs is for ink jet printers, (ij = i(nk) (j)et) so what you have seen
empirically makes perfect sense because we wouldn't expect the ink jet
driver to work well with a laser printer, unless I'm not understanding
something (always a possibility).
The PCL XL print stream corruption errors you were getting can also be
caused, other than by a driver mismatch, by the hardware between the pc
and printer (bad cables, etc.) but I guess the problem's fixed and you
don't need to look in that direction.
By the way, on my machine 'lpoptions' tells me what driver my printer's
using (amongst other things).
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