On 5/15/24 5:37 PM, nospam@godawa.de wrote:
Hi,
I'm using openSUSE since long time (still have books and install media for 6.4), not always on my daily drivers, but on servers, on small travel laptop, for testing etc., thus I never really had to look at the printing system.
Finally I decided to switch from MacOS X to Leap on my current ThinkPad T480 and it came to the printer installation over network.
Printer is a HP LaserJet Pro 400 Color (M451dw), installed with the "HP-setup". It was found, recommended driver was the "manufacturer-PPDs/hplip-hpps/hp-lj_300_400_color_m351_m451-ps.ppd.gz", printing works.
But, the quality is very bad, it looks like economic mode, but for sure, the "HPEconoMode" is disabled (False). I also checked all other options in the driver-settings without success.
The problem is not related to this specific laptop, but also for two others, installed with Leap too, while printing on an Epson XP-820 inkjet works perfectly, as it does from MacOS X (10.13 and 10.15) on the same ThinkPad and an old MBP13 with the HP LaserJet.
Any idea how to solve this?
Thanks a lot,
Fwiw, I have a similar tad older printer, HP Color Laserjet M255dw. Have used HP printers with openSUSE forever. I *always* install the driver using YaST. HP's drivers are typically very good; the installation HP provides, not so much. My printer uses a PostScrript Level 3 driver. It works perfectly. All the HP driver files are now in the SUSE repositories, mostly in hplip or hplip-hpijs packages, or possibly OpenPrinting_PPDs-postscript. I found one for M452 but not M451. But often the same driver is used for a group of similar printers. Try YaST. HTH, --dg Leap 15.5