On Thursday 05 Nov 2015 06:21:16 Philip Webb wrote: > 151103 Philip Webb wrote: > > 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. > > I've found the source of the problem. > It's necessary to choose the 'hpcups' driver, not the 'hpijs' driver, > when setting up the printer via the 631 menu. > Once that's done, Gvim Okular LO all print 'best' quality correctly. > > There is also a quality setting hidden away in the LO menus : > tools -> options -> LO -> print : set 'high' = 300 dpi. > > My route to the solution was via trying the 'gutenprint' pkg. > It doesn't offer a driver for an HP DJ 2510 , only 2500 or 2540, > but that led me to look thro' the other drivers in the 631 menu > & one of them was 'hpcups'. > > I'm surprised -- well, am I really ? -- that there's no mention of all this > in any of the dox, wikis, Forum discussions etc etc I've scoured. > However as usual, all problems with Gentoo are 1 level deep : > find where it is & the solution falls into place promptly (smile).
Ahh! Yes, I forgot about this. Sorry :-) hpcups is the newer driver for HP printers. On a new box I set up hpcups and it worked with my old HP printer, without hpjis, but older boxen still print fine with hpjis, so I left them alone. From what you're saying your printer *must* use hpcups. -- Regards, Mick
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