Hello, On Friday 29 January 2010 14:39:59 lynn wrote:
I have a deskjet F2280. Normal photocopy paper works fine.
To get high quality prints, I have to use HP paper. It will not feed any other (I have tried kodak and epson which I'd like to use).
Printer setup by yast. OS 11.2 with KDE 3.4.5
More specific information is needed: Which exact driver you use (see the YaST dialogs)? Which exact print job option settings do you use for high quality prints? Prefereably do test-prints via command line so that you know the exact job option settings. If you test printing with whatever kind of document from whatever kind of application program via whatever kind of desktop environment, the root cause of the issue could be everywhere in this huge stack of software magic. Print a PostScript file, for example the YaST test page /usr/share/YaST2/data/testprint.ps using a command like lp -d queue -o option1=valueA -o option2=valueN file Run lpoptions -p queue -l to get your particular driver-specific options. The output has the following syntax: option1/translation-string1: valueA valueB ... option2/translation-string2: valueM valueN ... The value of the default setting is marked with an asterisk '*' preceding the actual value e.g. '*valueB'. Regarding the question if certain HP printers may not feed non-HP paper for whatever special print mode, best ask HP directly for example via http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/support.html provided you use the HPLIP driver. To make sure you use the HPLIP driver, set up a print queue by HP's own setup tool "hp-setup". To do this, best run "hp-setup" directly as root. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org