hplip and photosmart C4100 - random problem

laurentgedm

Hi,

i thought everything was fine with my printer, but it's not...

Sometimes, i print something out, and get something very very bad, like this: HERE.

I had this problem previously with KDE apps, because the Control Center setting pointed to "generic unix lpd print system" instead of CUPS. This is not the case anymore.

I've been trying to print some things from web sites. When there is an image to print, the first page to come out of the printer (either the real first sentences, or the end of the text when i choose to print reverse) is always CREEPY.

I have the latest version of hplip, which is stable even for AMD64:

didymos · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject:

What program(s) are you printing from? Firefox? I've had that happen (the weird smeared page) in firefox a couple times, but it was always a one-time thing that spontaneously resolved itself, usually when I tried to print the same thing again, as with you.
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laurentgedm · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject:

I had this with Firefox, but also with KGhostView (i tried to print my page from firefox to a ps file then print it with another program) and, i think, OpenOffice.

This is not occasional... really weird.

It resolves itself by printing the same document again, but this problem is really annoying.

didymos · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:

Well, double-check the CUPS settings. Also, is there some reason you've disabled "foomaticdb" and "ppds" for hplip?
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