Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:05:32 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: Erin McNew <tuxgirl@gmail.com> Cc: Matthias Apitz <m.apitz@oclcpica.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 9800 with hpijs driver Message-ID: <474B351C.4070007@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <6e4453640711260805h54d62348p85153a40b7a30e8c@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e4453640711252223l1a7fd69cna36851f6746e9fa7@mail.gmail.com> <20071126072700.GA3275@rebelion.Sisis.de> <6e4453640711260805h54d62348p85153a40b7a30e8c@mail.gmail.com>
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Erin McNew wrote: > On Nov 25, 2007 11:27 PM, Matthias Apitz <m.apitz@oclcpica.org> wrote: > > >> El día Sunday, November 25, 2007 a las 10:23:05PM -0800, Erin McNew >> escribió: >> >> >>> I've been trying to get my photo printer working recently, and seem to >>> >> have >> >>> run into a bit of a snag. I just tried to print out a picture as a >>> >> test, >> >>> and instead of a picture, I got: PCL commands across the top of one page >>> >> of >> >>> photo paper, and the printer spewed the rest of my paper out empty >>> >> (taught >> >>> me an important lesson about testing without having large quantities of >>> photo paper in the printer...) >>> Anyway, I was looking on google, and I don't seem to see other people >>> >> having >> >>> this problem, but I'm not sure what I could've done wrong. I'm using >>> >> the >> >>> hpijs driver, which is supposed to work perfectly under linux, and works >>> perfectly for my other hp printer. Is this printer just not supported >>> >> by >> >>> FreeBSD? I couldn't find anything that stated directly either way in my >>> quick googling, so I was hoping somebody here might have some ideas for >>> things to check, etc. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> ~TuxGirl >>> >> Maybe it could help if you explain exactly how do you print the >> file, from command line or from some kind of application? >> The PCL across the top of one page, does it looks like stairs? >> I.e. does start the 2nd line where 1st line ends? >> >> matthias >> >> > > Ok. Let's see what other information I can provide. > > I was printing from the gimp. I looked at the printer setup, and it said > that it was using lpr. > As for the PCL, the first line was pretty short, and the second line did > start indented. I don't recall if it started where the first ended, but if > not, it was close to that. I couldn't see any further lines, but apparently > there were more, as the printer kept spitting out pages... > > Thanks! > ~Erin > > That is a probably a Gimp problem. You have to configure printing on Gimp before you start printing. What kind of ps filter does Gimp use? What happens when you manually pass your image through a2ps filter and try to print that ps file. Do you still have bad image?
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