On Tuesday 03 Nov 2015 18:33:58 Philip Webb wrote:
> 151102 Daniel Frey wrote:
> > I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it.  I found another
> > way to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic and that works trouble-free.
> > It's a driver for Laserjet printers, it won't work on deskjets AFAIK.
> > The driver is foo2zjs: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ , wh uses Ghostscript.
> > I looked and it looks like that won't help you.
> 
> Yes, they all seem to be for laser printers.  I do very little printing,
> but once or twice a year need to print something,
> so my cheap little HP DJ 2510 is adequate.
> 
> The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality,
> but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge).
> Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality' or 'best'.
> 
> In Mint, when that is set via the 631 menu, printing works correctly :
> I can print text files via Gvim (icon or  :ha ) & Gedit,  .odt  via LO
> & PDF via Evince ; Gedit & Evince have their own quality settings.
> 
> In Gentoo, the 631 setting has no effect, so all printing is draft.
> Only Kwrite has its own quality setting, which does work properly for text.
> In addition, the icon doesn't work in Gvim, tho'  :ha  does.
> 
> So for everyday purposes, I can print anything by rebooting into Mint.
> However, I'm not happy that there's a bug (or more) of some sort in Gentoo.
> I'm not at all sure where it could be or how to report it.
> It cb caused by the difference in desktops, Xfce on Mint, Fluxbox on Gentoo
> : perhaps the bigger desktop managers do the job themselves,
> whereas something else needs fixing with the lightweight Fluxbox.
> 
> Further comments mb useful to everyone.
> 
> PS thankyou to Dale, whose general experience is similar to my own.

Is your gentoo user a member of lp & lpadmin group?

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Regards,
Mick