sorry the previous dispatch was personal only. Now I include the mailing list
2017-01-31 12:57 GMT+01:00 <to...@tuxteam.de>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:43:06PM +0100, albcares wrote: > > dear Sirs and Madams > > I'm afraid my question could be off-topic; but anyway I try all the same > > since Mint appears to have a strong relationship with Debian. > > I'm myself no printer expert, far from that. Besides, I tend to avoid > CUPS whenever I can. So I'm not the most appropriate person to answer > your questions. > > Still, a couple of tips: > > > so, the matter is that I own an old laser printer Lexmark Optra e310. Few > > months ago I had to reinstall CUPS due to a bad mistake that made it > > completely out of service. After having restored CUPS I tried to join my > > printer;but although I got PPD from various sites as "nodevice.com" or " > > openprinting.org" none of them seems to run correctly. > > - - What does "not running correctly" mean? Can you address your > printer from an application? Does it print anything? > > - - Is your printer listed on the list of printers of your desktop > environment? > > - - Most of the time there's a way to print a test page. Does that > work? Are the results "wrong"? In which way? > > > Finally I set up the Optra as "generic" with PCL5; but this solution is > > quite unsatisfactory, too. > > - - The printer prints, but it doesn't look good? In which way? > > If you are able to answer some of those questions (or any other > you might come up with), this would help people willing to help > to focus their search a bit. > > Regards > - -- tomás > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAliQe5MACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbrvwCfZYQfF+S+JRWrDVh1EIgtQXxN > jOgAn07wIw8UAc9I+xOmyqOpFKOr1EjV > =sNSg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > thanks for Ur fast answer. I'll try to do my best to explain. I correctly see Optra labelled as "generic" in the printer list. The firs print I get is generally good. But if I send another one, it jumps out as wide as if it saw only the first quarter up the sheet: wide fonts, wider grafics; the white field itself is printed with artefacts like clouds of black spots. Each time I want to print beyond one document I must turn off - turn on the printer. I supposed that any process remained hanging somewhere but I couldn't find out. -- linux user #521635
