From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RDRDk-0005WS-0T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:33:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A6C321C121; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:33:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s1.itech7.com (s1.itech7.com [94.76.222.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5271121C094 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:32:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by s1.itech7.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE12B3E60 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:02:14 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <4E939C9D.5010505@nileshgr.com> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:02:13 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindarajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111007 Thunderbird/7.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cups and Ricoh Aficio 270 References: <201110102043.56323.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201110102043.56323.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5c007f250a9d6061adb22481dd45fcd1 On Tue 11 Oct 2011 01:13:41 AM IST, Mick wrote: > I'm struggling to get anything printed properly - is there a proper driver for > this printer in CUPS. The driver I've chosen seems to distort everything > (like a page of A4 text comes out as a black spot 3px high and 2 wide! ) > > I've selected AppSocket/HP JetDirect and then since no Ricoh driver showed up > I selected Make:Generic and Driver:Generic PCL Laser Printer (en). > > The reason I've chosen AppSocket/HP JetDirect is because nmap returned this > protocol when I scanned the printer. Choosing ipp, or http, lpd was not > successful either. > > However, this AppSocket/HP JetDirect protocol with the Generic driver gives > the broken printing I've described above. Selecting the Generic PostScript > Printer (en) it prints pages and pages with ascii or screwed up characters > when I try a test page. > > Any suggestions? I don't know about this printer, have you checked the printer compatibility list? (openprinting.org I guess). See how good is your printer supported. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com