On Tuesday 03 Nov 2015 18:33:58 Philip Webb wrote: > 151102 Daniel Frey wrote: > > I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found another > > way to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic and that works trouble-free. > > It's a driver for Laserjet printers, it won't work on deskjets AFAIK. > > The driver is foo2zjs: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ , wh uses Ghostscript. > > I looked and it looks like that won't help you. > > Yes, they all seem to be for laser printers. I do very little printing, > but once or twice a year need to print something, > so my cheap little HP DJ 2510 is adequate. > > The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality, > but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge). > Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality' or 'best'. > > In Mint, when that is set via the 631 menu, printing works correctly : > I can print text files via Gvim (icon or :ha ) & Gedit, .odt via LO > & PDF via Evince ; Gedit & Evince have their own quality settings. > > In Gentoo, the 631 setting has no effect, so all printing is draft. > Only Kwrite has its own quality setting, which does work properly for text. > In addition, the icon doesn't work in Gvim, tho' :ha does. > > So for everyday purposes, I can print anything by rebooting into Mint. > However, I'm not happy that there's a bug (or more) of some sort in Gentoo. > I'm not at all sure where it could be or how to report it. > It cb caused by the difference in desktops, Xfce on Mint, Fluxbox on Gentoo > : perhaps the bigger desktop managers do the job themselves, > whereas something else needs fixing with the lightweight Fluxbox. > > Further comments mb useful to everyone. > > PS thankyou to Dale, whose general experience is similar to my own.
Is your gentoo user a member of lp & lpadmin group? -- Regards, Mick
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