Laura Rudmin wrote:
Solution:nate wrote:Laura Rudmin said:Okay, the answer to this is yes and no, and may have the solution -- but I don't understand it
Hi,
I have a Sid system with KDE 3.0, and CUPS with lp, tied to a HP
Deskjet 1120C.
when you print a test page from cups does it print out OK ? You
can access the admin interface from http://localhost:631
yet.
If I go to :start menu:preferences:system:printing manager
[that's menus in KDE, not directories in Linux]
then hit "test print", I get junk. I click on my HP Deskjet printer, and go over to "instances", I find that there is a "default" option that is essentially junk, with the standard double-light flash and all . If I click "set as default" on another option, such as cRET color, then I can successfully print a test print. But when I then try to delete the default, I find that it doesn't work. It says it can't.
Also possibly related to all this, things are fine on my account. But on another user account, if she tries to load the printing manager, it comes up three times with an error "There was an error loading kdeprint_lpd. Diagnostic is:" and that's all. But there is no printer listed at all, then. I wonder if some of our installation files are corrupted.
As far as I can tell, what got things working for me was to
(a) Turn off 600 dpi printing or 600-300 dpi printing on the color printing
(b) Make sure to select a NON-cups driver, then reselct a CUPS driver, and then the printers show up. Select a printer, install a new instance of the HP printer, set its dpi, page type, color type and all, and set that as the default. Don't set the "DEFAULT" as default. Both "DEFAULT" and "600 dpi color" seem to cause the junk printing, possibly because the 1120c can only handle 600dpi black printing, not 600dpi color printing.
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