-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0809111846310.6931@nimrodel.valinor> The Thursday 2008-09-11 at 18:06 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
On Sep 11 15:48 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):
If I try from Yast
Avoid generic printer setup tools like YaST, Gnome and KDE printer setup tools, CUPS web frontend when you have a printer setup tool "hp-setup" from HP which is exactly made for their driver for their devices.
I tried almost all combinations, except command line (this time). From the graphical tools, the cups frontend seems the best. (I wrote another email with the results of some tests I just run)
It is a PostScript printer and you don't need any driver at all for normal printing - only the right PPD file - that is all.
And the file can be found.... where? :-?
Somewhere on the CD which is supplied with the printer or somewhere on the Internet from HP ;-)
Of course I know that "somewhere" doesn't help you much and that searching HP's web site is just another dungeon...
Ok, I'll have a look around the CD. About searching their Moria mine... ugh.
Ok, I installed like:
Description: HP Color LaserJet CP1515n Foomatic/hpijs, hpijs 2.8.5.23 Location: Local Printer Driver: HP Color LaserJet CP1515n Foomatic/hpijs, hpijs 2.8.5.23 Printer State: processing, accepting jobs, published. Device URI: usb://HP/Color%20LaserJet%20CP1515n
I haven't seen "postscript", but the list is so big and not searchable... it might be there.
It isn't there. Currently I use HPLIP 2.8.7 on my workstation (do NOT use FACTORY packages on your system)
don't worry :-)
and there I have only: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- root@host# lpinfo -l -m | grep -A3 manufacturer-PPDs/hplip | grep 1515 Model: name = manufacturer-PPDs/hplip/hp-color_laserjet_cp1515n-hpijs-pcl3.ppd.gz make-and-model = HP Color LaserJet cp1515n Foomatic/hpijs, hpijs 2.8.7.3 device-id = MFG:HP;MDL:hp_color_laserjet_cp1515n;DES:hp_color_laserjet_cp1515n; ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I.e. there is no PostScript PPD included in HPLIP yet.
Pity. I'll have a look at the CD, and if I do find it perhaps I can mail it to you or to someone so that it gets added? maybe I have to install it on some windows first.
Printing fails. I get a printed page with this:
PCL XL error Subsystem: KERNEL Error: IllegalAttribute Operator: BeginPage Position: 2
I.e. your printer doesn't "understand" what the hpijs driver has sent to it.
Ah, it is the printer complaining and wasting a good piece of paper. They could have added a bigger LCD display... and charge 100€ more. Better not. :-}
Is your printer perhaps set to "understand" only PostScript?
I don't think so. The self test page says these personalities and otions are installed: PCLXL (20040201) PS (20040201) PCL (20040201) DIMM Slot 1: empty And in settings, the personality is set to "Auto".
If it "understands" PostScript, it prints the color ellipse using
lp -d <queue-name> -o raw /usr/share/doc/packages/ghostscript-library/examples/colorcir.ps
Yes, it prints :-)
This is a bit strange because the model specification at HP http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/sm/WF06a/18972-18972-3328060-3328070-33... reads: --------------------------------------------------------------- Standard Printer Languages: HP PCL 6, HP Postscript level 3 emulation ---------------------------------------------------------------
And the above "PCL XL" is equivalent to "PCL 6".
I.e. it should "understand" it but perhaps there is simply a bug in the driver which produces wrong PCL6?
I found (via Google) this one:
https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/33380
Ahhh: ------------------------------------------------------------- using HPLIP 2.8.5 ... There is a problem with the 1515/1518 printers. ... Edit the file /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat ... The sections in the models.dat have been corrected for the next release. -------------------------------------------------------------
I guess it is easiest to use a newer HPLIP version.
Any chance of you building it, sometime before opensuse 11.1? O;-))
By the way I: A nice experience of a really horrible install of a PostScript printer. Why the heck is there no PostScript PPD provided by HP when it is a PostScript printer?
Good question!
Or does "HP Postscript level 3 emulation" perhaps mean that PostScript is only emulated by the (Windows) driver? Please test as described above whether or not this device really understands PostScript.
I thought the same. It does understand postscript. While I was shopping around I was baffled by that statement for some time, but I thought that as it has almost 100Mb of ram chances are it has an interpreter. It also specifies the list of fonts contained internally, when in some other models it says that it depends on the fonts of the host computer, and they have about 16 MB ram. Plus some friends told me that that paragragh is typical HP parlance. And I run your test which confirmed it :-) It might be that the interpreter is not licensed or something :-? Who knows.
By the way II: Have in mind that HPLIP is made only by a few people at HP (i.e. one cannot expect that they can test any model really thorougly). Therefore I think it would help them very much when many many users of HPLIP write to the HP management that they buy HP printers because there is a actively maintained free Linux driver.
Right! Now I need email addresses. I'll use my ieee alias ;-) You know, I can not even register the product because as I did not run their installer CD, I haven't been asked. Funny! Although they know that I bought it, I did it directly from them. I need time to read that CD. Sigh... time is an scarce comodity. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjJS3UACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UB/wCeMlZlsQ0NCVKGpWjpXZ+dcEtj WCYAnRBruzB4PDvaRUPx9C6H1q3/oXDa =2bQF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----