Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems : hiccups solve them

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

151103 Philip Webb wrote:
> 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.

I've found the source of the problem.
It's necessary to choose the 'hpcups' driver, not the 'hpijs' driver,
when setting up the printer via the 631 menu.
Once that's done, Gvim Okular LO all print 'best' quality correctly.

There is also a quality setting hidden away in the LO menus :
 tools -> options -> LO -> print : set 'high' = 300 dpi.

My route to the solution was via trying the 'gutenprint' pkg.
It doesn't offer a driver for an HP DJ 2510 , only 2500 or 2540,
but that led me to look thro' the other drivers in the 631 menu
& one of them was 'hpcups'.

I'm surprised -- well, am I really ? -- that there's no mention of all this
in any of the dox, wikis, Forum discussions etc etc I've scoured.
However as usual, all problems with Gentoo are  1  level deep :
find where it is & the solution falls into place promptly (smile).

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