On Friday 04 May 2007, Malte Gell wrote: > On Friday 04 May 2007 21:09, Chris Spiegel wrote: > > I have a Laserjet 4L that I recently modified in CUPS; thus a PPD > > from a newer version of HPLIP was used. As a result, though, > > everything printed appeared to be in draft quality, and there was no > > option to change this in CUPS. When I tried an older PPD file, the > > quality was back and there were more options in CUPS > > (...) > > The PPD from HPLIP 1.7.2 has these options, but 1.7.3 does not. > > I am not the perfect Cups expert, but this is what I´d try to do: have > you tried to use the old PPD with the newer version of HPLIP? The PPD > file is a simple text file, under Linux you could use the KDE3 programm > kdiff3 and load both PPDs and look at the differences, you may even > create your own PPD by taking the stuff you need from the old one and > paste it into the new one from 1.7.3. Ok, that´s just a thought, I don > ´t know if the HPLIP developers would ever recommend to do this, but > this is what I might try 1st.
Hi, This is indeed what I'm currently doing. The old PPD file works fine; I'm just wondering if the change was intentional, and if not, perhaps it can be rectified. Otherwise I'll just stick with an older PPD or Gutenprint. I can't say that I don't have choices, at least! Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
